EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN – BED
BED
Made of amboyna burl wood and ivory. Signed with a fire-stamped mark
Maximum width of the headboard: 260 cm
Length: 212 cm.
Headboard height: 103.5 cm.
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BED
Made of amboyna burl wood and ivory. Signed with a fire-stamped mark
Maximum width of the headboard: 260 cm
Length: 212 cm.
Headboard height: 103.5 cm.
ZUCCARRI DISPLAY CABINET, MODEL N. 2182
Rio rosewood, piece no. 1, completed September 1927
Stamped with a branded mark, workshop A. Accompanied by its manufacturing certificate no. 167
250 x 180 x 50 cm.
Bibliography
Camard Florence, Ruhlmann, page 122 (American edition, Thames & Hudson, 1984). Similar model made in ebony for the 1931 Colonial Exhibition. Location unknown
Provenance
Paolo Matarazzo, Salerno, Italia
VASE, CIRCA 1920
Large rectangular transparent glass vase with inclusions of red powders and fragmented leaf motifs,
blown into a wrought iron mount
Signed
Height: 22.5 cm.
BOWL
Flared bowl on a notched foot in beige and brown ceramic
Signed with the usual mark
Height: 14.5 cm
Diameter: 24.5 cm
FOOTED BOWL
Thick amber glass deeply etched with a frieze of herringbone designs
Signed underneath with the artist’s monogram
10.5 x 14.5 cm.
TRAVEL SUITCASE, CIRCA 1930
Red and black leather travel suitcase containing a gentleman’s toiletry set in silver and black lacquer
Signed
59 x 39 x 16.5 cm
VASE, MM 1248 (1926)
Deeply engraved glass with blue bubble inclusions simulating water
Signed
Height: 9.4 cm.
Bibliography
Félix Marcilhac, Maurice Marinot Artisan Verrier. Catalogue raisonné de l’Œuvre de verre, Les éditions de l’amateur, 2013, ill. p. 465
Provenance
Collection Estevez (1926)
Sotheby’s Belgravia, July 3, 1981, lot 176, sold for £3,600 on the hammer
Private collection, New York, USA
Acquired from the above
IMPORTANT LAMP
Patinated wrought iron base featuring stylized foliage decoration
The shade in alabaster
Signed
Height: 60 cm.
GUERIDON
Metal with three legs, made by the Comte workshop in Argentina
Height: 70 cm
Top diameter: 39 cm
VASE, CIRCA 1920
Multilayered glass, acid-etched with a frieze of branches and leaves from which stylized fruits are suspended
Height: 30 cm.
VASE, 1926
Porcelain with celadon glaze decorated with a frog, flowers and leaves in high relief
Signed HHH, bearing three waves and dated 7-4-1926
14 cm. high
Hans Henrik Hansen was sculptor at Royal Copenhagen from 1908 and designer from 1926 to 1965
WROUGHT IRON FIREPLACE SET, CIRCA 1915-1920
Featuring a bird head motif and scrollwork, resting on four crossed legs
With a fire poker, a shovel, and tongs
Height: 75 cm.
Bibliography
Documents de Décoration Moderne, 1st volume, Ferronnerie, pl. 20
CONICAL VASE
Chamois stoneware
Height: 17 cm.
BOWL, 1930
White pâte de verre with purple streaks
Signed with the artist’s seal and numbered B913
Diameter: 13.8 cm.
Height: 7 cm.
BOWL, MODEL 477, 1931
Mottled pâte de verre with streaks
Signed with the artist’s seal and numbered C280
Height: 10.5 cm.
From an edition of 3 examples
Bibliography
Véronique Ayroles, François Décorchemont, Maître de la pâte de verre, 1880-1971, Paris, 2006,
ill. p. 292
Presently on loan to the Musée du Verre François Décorchemont, in Conches-en-Ouches
BOWL WITH TWO HANDLES, MODEL 330, 1927
Pâte de verre in mottled yellow with brown streaks
Signed with the artist’s seal and numbered B577
From an edition of 31 examples
Height: 9.4 cm.
Diameter: 16 cm (including the handles)
Bibliography
Véronique Ayrolles, François Décorchemont: Maître de la pâte de verre, 2006, éditions Norma, Paris, similar model ill. p. 274
Presently on loan to the Musée du Verre François Décorchemont, in Conches-en-Ouches
GLASS COUPE DEPICTING A NATIVITY SCENE, CIRCA 1925
Signed Manzana
5 x 10 cm.
VASE
Transparent glass vase with polychrome enamels floral decoration
Signed
Height:22 cm.
LETTER OPENER, CIRCA 1920
Pâte de cristal
Signed
29.4 cm. long
“ANEMONE” COUPE, 1920
Pâte de verre
Signed G. ARGY-ROUSSEAU
Height: 8 cm.
Diameter: 11 cm.
Bibliography
Janine Bloch-Dermant, Argy-Rousseau Catalogue raisonné, ill. p. 183 under the n. 20.15
“CHRYSANTHEMES” VASE, 1919
Pâte-de-verre
Signed
Height: 14.4 cm.
Bibliography
Janine Bloch-Dermant, G. Argy-rousseau Catalogue raisonné, les éditions de l’amateur, 1990, ill. p. 47, ill. p. 180
PAIR OF WALL LIGHTS, CIRCA 1925
Wrought iron with a silvered patina. The shades in yellow and orange multilayered acid etched glass with gold powders inclusions
Height: 50 cm.
Width: 31 cm.
Stencil enhanced with watercolor
Signed
FONTAINE LUMINEUSE, 1924-1927
The shape and decor designed by Henri Rapin, executed by J.-B. Gauvenet
Porcelain, the base in bronze
The top bearing the Sèvres Factory seal S 1924; at the base, a plaque is engraved
AGENCE GENERALE ELLIOTT FISHER A SON CHER VICE-PRESIDENT
F. LECHER SEVRES PARIS NOVEMBRE 1927
App. 134 cm. high without the base
Four fountains are registered in the archives at the Sèvres Factory:
One at the Mobilier National, incomplete (lower part missing)
One at the Sèvres Porcelain Factory, in excellent condition
One in an unknown location, severely damaged
Our example
Exhibition
Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris, 1925 (Pavillon de Sèvres)
L’Exposition des porcelaines de Sèvres de style Art Déco, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum,
2 October-19 December 1993, ill. p. 37, n. 30 in the exhibition catalogue
Bibliography
Les œuvres de la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, tome V: Le Luminaire, nd, ill. pl. 5, n. 3528
Jean Paul Midant, Sèvres – La Manufacture au XXème siècle, Michel Aveline editor, Paris, 1992,
ill. full page p. 76 (formerly in the Pavillon de Sèvres collection, London, the bronze base missing)