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PIERRE-FELIX FIX-MASSEAU – “FEMME S’AMUSANT AVEC UN CHAT”, 1903

“FEMME S’AMUSANT AVEC UN CHAT”, 1903
Patinated bronze
Signed and bearing the foudry mark IHF
Height: 24 cm.

Bibiography
Art et Décoration, June 1903, page 201, Femme au chat, bronze, SNBA
“M. Fix-Masseau expose cette année une petite figurine en bronze de femme assise, s’amusant avec un chat, qui est d’une élégance et d’un charme exquis, avec cette note fantaisiste très personnelle à l’artiste. Son groupe de mère et d’enfant, par contre, nous paraît d’une exagération de mouvement un peu inutile, et la silhouette penchée de la femme a le tort, semble-t-il, de rappeler un peu trop sa Salomé de l’an dernier”
Paul Vitry, La Sculpture aux Salons, Art et Décoration, June 1903, pp. 199 & 200

Exhibition
SNBA, 1903, Objets d’Art, 88 – Femme s’amusant avec un chat (figure bronze)

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ERNEST LEVEILLE – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Blown and crackled glass with red glass powder inclusions
Height: 17.5 cm
Unsigned. Probably a design by Eugène Rousseau

Provenance
Stern family
Then by descent

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ERNEST LEVEILLE – “A TETE DE CHIMERE” VASE, CIRCA 1885

“A TETE DE CHIMERE” VASE, CIRCA 1885
Crackled glass with glass powder inclusions, with applied side motifs depicting chimeras
Height: 20.5 cm.

Unsigned. This model was originally created by Eugène Rousseau, who did not always sign his works. It also exists in a 26 cm version with engraved chimeras and rabbit. (L’Art du verre en France, p. 35)

Bibliography
B. Klesse et H. Mayr, Glas vom Jugendstil bis heute, Sammlung Gertrud und Dr. Karl Funke-Kaiser, Cologne, 1981, p. 333, n. 243
G. Cappa, L’Europe de l’art verrier, des précurseurs de l’art nouveau à l’art actuel, 1850-1990, Liège, 1991, p. 393, n. 702

Provenance
Stern family
Then by descent

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BAPST ET FALIZE – BEAKER, 1898

BEAKER, 1898
Silver, with repoussé decoration featuring a frieze of stylized vegetal arabesques
Engraved beneath the base with the monogram JFR and dated 20 July 1898
With French Minerva mark and silversmith’s mark
Height: 13 cm.

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JOSEPH ET PIERRE MOUGIN – ALFRED FINOT – “LA SOIF”, MODEL 8.F, CIRCA 1900

“LA SOIF”, MODEL 8.F, CIRCA 1900
Glazed stoneware coloquinte decorated with an incised semi-relief of a kneeling nude woman drinking from the spring. The reverse features the leafy stem of the coloquinte
Signed A. Finot and Mougin Nancy 7205
Height: 19 cm.

Bibliography
La Lorraine Artiste, December 1900, ill. p. 156
Art Nouveau Belgium/France, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1976, exhibition catalogue, p. 275, no. 438
Jacques G. Peiffer, Nancy 1900, Gérard Klopp s.a. éditeur, 1989, ill. p. 211

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LUCIEN HIRTZ – CUP, 1904

CUP, 1904
Silver cup, finely chased, partially hammered and enamelled, with silver leaf inclusions
Signed L. Hirtz and bearing the unidentified maker’s mark and silver hallmark on the reverse
Height: 8 cm.
Diameter: 6.5 cm.

Bibliography
Art et Décoration, January and June 1904
« Au dernier Salon, Hirtz surprit et dérouta même, beaucoup de ses admirateurs. Au lieu des plaques habituelles, il exposait de l’orfèvrerie ; au lieu des têtes étranges, des gobelets, une coupe ! Peu comprirent l’intérêt qu’il y avait en cette tentative, en même temps qu’ils s’étonnaient de voir un artiste au succès assuré rompre avec sa production courante et chercher autre chose. Quel besoin le poussait ?
Nous insisterons cependant sur ces œuvres, que nous reproduisons ici. Introduire dans l’orfèvrerie les colorations vives et profondes de l’émail ; enrichir encore la richesse du métal, tout en créant une harmonie, voilà, semble-t-il, quel était le but de l’artiste.
Ses gobelets sont en argent repoussé et gravé. Les émaux y sont localisés aux seuls ornements déjà détaillés par la gravure. C’est de la basse-taille, en somme. La flore y est ornementale et conventionnelle. Dans le plus grand, un bleu intense et profond, bleu un peu spécial à Hirtz, quoi qu’il en dise ; ce bleu passe insensiblement au vert jaune, puis au jaune foncé dans les fleurs. Les colorations profondes et somptueuses ressortent admirablement sur le métal légèrement assombri. Des stries détaillant finement les formes y donnent encore de la profondeur et du moelleux au ton.
… L’aspect de ces pièces est fort nouveau et peut-être la polychromie puissante y a-t-elle légèrement effrayé ? Ce serait compréhensible si la puissance excluait l’harmonie, ce qui n’est pas le cas, loin de là. Mais, comme il est infiniment plus aisé d’harmoniser des gris entre eux, ou des couleurs pâles et ternes, les hardiesses sont rares ; la couleur splendide de l’émail n’y devrait-elle pas cependant pousser ses fervents ? » M. P.-Verneuil « L’Email et les émailleurs », Art et Décoration, June 1904, pp. 161 & 162
Our cup is ill. page 153

Exhibition
SNBA 1904

Provenance
Stern family. Then by descent

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VILLE VALLGREN – “WEEPING WOMAN” VASE, 1893

“WEEPING WOMAN”, 1893
Rare bronze vase in brown patina, depicting a seated woman
Signed and dated 1893
Height: 25 cm.

Exhibition
At the Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1893, Vallgren exhibited several bronzes, including a weeping woman and three funerary urns

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EDOUARD-MARCEL SANDOZ – “SINGE” WALL-LIGHT, CIRCA 1910

“SINGE” WALL-LIGHT, CIRCA 1910
Patinated bronze
Signed E. M. Sandoz
40 cm. high

The absence of a foundry mark indicates that it is a work made for his personal use or for a special commission. The items intented for edition were cast by Susse or Valsuani (lately). Robecchi executed works only at the sculptor’s request from plaster casts.

Bibliography
L’Art décoratif, May 1914, ill. p. 174
Félix Marcilhac, Sandoz sculpteur figuriste et animalier, ill. p. 390-391, n. 773

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RENE LALIQUE – “MONNAIE DU PAPE” CHALICE, 1904

“MONNAIE DU PAPE” CHALICE, 1904

Lost-wax cast glass
Signed on the base in intaglio: R. Lalique and dated 1904
Unique piece
Height: 19 cm

A model of the same shape, decorated with a design of anemones, is in the collection of the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, inventory no. 1264

This piece was not referenced in the first three editions of the Catalogue Raisonné by Félix Marcilhac. It was subsequently listed under CP2bis (with the description published under CP3quater wrongly attributed to a third party)

Provenance
Formerly in the collection of one of René Lalique's collaborators

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EMILE GALLE – DECORATIVE VASE, CIRCA 1878-1884

DECORATIVE VASE, CIRCA 1878-1884
Smoked glass, decorated with an historicising design engraved in intaglio and highlighted with gilding, the two rings decorated with polychrome opaque enamels
Bearing two inscriptions engraved around the rim: T Weilvaren” and “Van de Negoothie
Unsigned
Height: 23.5 cm – Diameter: 11 cm.
The subject chosen by Gallé is Mercury and Neptune watching over the fate of a rich ship, while the inscriptions may be translated as “twelve years of trade”
A related model is currently held in the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (inv. no. OAO 999)

Bibliography
Françoise Thérèse Charpentier & Philippe Thiébaut, Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Luxembourg, 29 November 1985 to 2 February 1986, Éditions RMN, 1985; a similar model is ill. p. 162

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EMILE GALLE – FAN SHAPED VIDE-POCHE DISH, 1874

FAN SHAPED VIDE-POCHE DISH, 1874
In smoked glass, enamelled with a painted decoration in blackish-brown and polychrome enamels, with intertwined foliage and a central hunting scene depicting hunters, a dog and game
Signed E. Gallé and dated 1874
30 × 33.5 cm.

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EMILE GALLE – “AUX LIBELLULES ET PAPILLONS” CONSOLE, CIRCA 1900

“AUX LIBELLULES ET PAPILLONS” CONSOLE, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted walnut and exotic wood marquetry, mother-of-pearl inlay and bronze
Signed
138 cm. high; 74 cm. wide; 46 cm. deep

Only one variant of the design is recorded

Bibliography
A. Duncan and G. de Bartha, Gallé Furniture, Antique Collector’s Club, 2012, a variant ill. p. 272, pl. 4

Provenance
Private collection, France

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DAUM NANCY – RARE VASE, CIRCA 1892-1895

RARE VASE, CIRCA 1892-1895
Double acid-etched glass with a design of grasshoppers, flowers, insects, and an enameled butterfly, highlighted with gold
Signed
Height: 29 cm.

Exhibition
Similar model at the Kitazawa museum

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EMILE GALLE – CONICAL VASE, 1898

CONICAL VASE, 1898
Multilayered and wheel-carved conical vase with faceted corners in amber, purplish-blue and red marquetry glass, internally decorated with columbines on a background with silver foil inclusions, acid-etched, the original bronze base in the shape of leaves and spurs
Signed and dated 1898
26.1 cm. high

Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, 1898
Wood One Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan, 2005, n.33, ill. p. 36 in the exhibition catalogue
Emile Gallé – Nature and Symbol / Le Langage des Fleurs et des Choses Muettes, 16 January – 10 April 2016, Tokyo Metropolitan
Teien Art Museum; 24 April – 5 June 2016, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, n. 069, ill. p. 90

Bibliography
Revue des Arts Décoratifs, 1898, ill. p. 148
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999, ill. p. 319, n. 318
Emile Gallé et le verre, la collection du musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, Ed. Somogy, Paris, 2004, similar example ill. p. 164, n. 280

Provenance
Daimaru Museum, Japan

Other examples of this design are owned by important museums worldwide:
Kitazawa Museum of Art, Japan
Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf (Collection Gerda Koepf), Germany
Suntory Museum, Japan
Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, Nancy, France
Budapest Museum of Applied Arts, inv. n. 55.284, Hungary

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EMILE GALLE – “IRIS” VASE, CIRCA 1900

“IRIS” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass vase decorated with blooming water iris in glass marquetry,
some elements wheel-cut, with six vertical hot-applied elements
Signed with a double line

Exhibition
The model was exhibited at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition,
displayed in the Les Granges showcase
Our vase was shown at the Fine Arts Exhibition in Mulhouse in 1911, no. 14, p. 90
It was also included in the Gallé exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris from 29 November 1985 to 2 February 1986

Bibliography
Émile Nicolas, M. Émile Gallé at the 1900 Exposition, in La Lorraine, 18th year, no. 11,
December 1900, p. 164, for a similar example with a dragonfly
Roger Marx, La décoration et les Industries d’Art à l’Exposition de 1900, 1901, p. 107
La Revue Lorraine Illustrée, no. 3, 1906, p. 106
Bulletin de la Société Industrielle de Mulhouse, 1911, p. 4
A similar example was sold at Christie’s Geneva on 16 November 1981 under lot no. 228 (sold for 230,000 Swiss francs plus fees to Andrée Vyncke)
Georges de Bartha, Gallé, le verre, Bibliothèque des arts, Paris, 1985, p. 105, for a similar model
Françoise Thérèse Charpentier, Philippe Thiébaut, Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 29 November 1985 – 2 February 1986, Ministry of Culture, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1985, p. 212