LOUIS HESTAUX – TRIANGULAR DECORATIVE ELEMENT, CIRCA 1900
TRIANGULAR DECORATIVE ELEMENT, CIRCA 1900
Carved and engraved wood, depicting a bather emerging from the water
Length: 21 cm.
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TRIANGULAR DECORATIVE ELEMENT, CIRCA 1900
Carved and engraved wood, depicting a bather emerging from the water
Length: 21 cm.
FOOTED BOWL IN THE FORM OF A GOTHIC CIBORIUM, 1906
Silver and gilt silver.
The upper section is decorated with an applied Gothic inscription: Cinquantenaire d’Alfred WERLE 1906, featuring interlacing motifs, vine leaves, and grape clusters on an amethyst-colored background.
The foot is applied with three medallions representing La Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin and Edouard Werlé (former director of Veuve Clicquot champagne).
Bearing the silversmith mark. Stamp of Alfred Werlé, with the inscription Tout vient du ciel
Applied medallion by Paul Palin
13 x 13 cm
Weight: 450 gr.
INKWELL, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze, with a design of a stylised vine. With its glass bucket
Signed
Height: 9.5
Width: 30 cm.
Depth: 17 cm
Bibliography
Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXe Siècle, Edition de La Maison Moderne, Paris, 1901, Les objets en métal, ill. p. 2 under the number 719-1
OINTMENT JAR, CIRCA 1900
Gilt patina, decorated with stylized flowers and stems in light relief
Signed G. KELLER / PARIS and numbered 1, it bears the square hallmark for G K metal as well as the winged Mercury mark
Height: 9.5 cm
Base diameter: 7 cm.
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Silvered bronze
Signed
Height: 14 cm.
Bibliography
The Paris Salons, vol. 5, ill. p. 88
“NAIADES” TABLE BELL, CIRCA 1900
Patinated bronze. Signed and bearing the letter M and SUSSE FRES.
Height: 13.5 cm.
Bibliography
1905 catalog, ill. p. 16, réf. 716
Pierre Cadet, Susse Frères – 150 years of sculpture, ill p. 206
INKWELL, CIRCA 1900
Silver, decorated in high relief with thistles, with its glass bucket
Signed under the base J Pinto
With French Minerva mark
13 cm. large
“HEBE” PLATE, CIRCA 1900
Pewter. Numbered 9780
Diameter: 26 cm.
Bibliography
Siot-Decauville catalogue, ill. pl. 105
CANE, CIRCA 1900
Silver knob engraved with a satyr
Signed Lasserre
Height: 7.5 cm.
CANE, CIRCA 1900
Wooden cane with a silver knob depicting a woman playing a mandolin
Silver hallmark (small guarantee). Maker’s mark illegible.
Height: 6.5 cm.
BOX, CIRCA 1900
Leather, silver and hardstone. Suede interior
Gilded monogram. Most probably executed at the La Maison Moderne workshops for leather goods.
With its key
19 x 14 x 5 cm.
“LA SOURCE”
Repoussé and patinated leather panel. Titled at the bottom.
159 x 63 cm. (including frame)
THREE INCISED LEATHER PLATES FOR BOOK BINDINGS
One is signed and dated 1906 in the plate
The other two bear the atelier’s seal
PICTURE FRAME
Interior in moiré fabric, fully covered in brown leather
Decorated with three stylized flowers
Signed lower right
27.5 x 13.7 cm.
Exhibition
Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXème siècle, Editions de La Maison Moderne, Paris, ill. p.11, under the number 3093-IV
Emile Seyden, Maroquinerie d’art”, L’Art Décoratif, May 1901, p. 74 to 80 : Article reserved exclusively for leather objects by Maurice Dufrène, with numerous illustrations
VASE
Bronze with a brown patina featuring pine cone decorations in high relief on the sides
Signed
Height: 10 cm.
This vase is identical to the one acquired by the French State at the 1908 Salon des Artistes Français, when Barboteaux exhibited for the first time after leaving his position with René Lalique.
Exhibition
Salon des Artistes Français, 1908
Bibliography
Art et Décoration, July 1909, ill. p. 59
BOOKENDS, CIRCA 1900
Wood and repoussé copper
Unsigned
Each: 38.5 x 15 cm.
“VIERGE A L'ENFANT”
Polychrome enamel on copper
Signed
21 x 15 cm.
PILLBOX, CIRCA 1900
Pâte de verre, the mount in vermeil
The lid is decorated with gold foil and green and red powder inclusions. The upper surface is engraved
and enameled with small flowers. The leaves are encircled and gold-rimmed in shades of pink,
opal, and green. The sides are decorated with four vertical cartouches featuring the same design, framed in vermeil
Two boar’s head marks
Maker’s mark: A P (unidentified, possibly Adolphe Perrier?)
Diameter: 4.8 cm.
Height: 2.6 cm.
TRAY
Silvered bronze, decorated with foliage. Handles shaped as snakes
Signed A Landry and Colin
Length: 67 cm.
Width: 34.5 cm
Exhibition
Salon de 1903
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, 1903, Armand Guérinet éditeur, ill. pl. 187
CANDLESTICK, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze with its receptacle and match scraper
Signed
Height: 18.5 cm.
Width: 18.2 cm.
THEOPHILE HINGRE
LOUCHET, Chaser
Silvered bronze, featuring two dragonflies facing each other on a sprig of lily of the valley
Signed T. HINGRE and LOUCHET
9.8 cm. high
GUSTAVE GURSCHNER
LA MAISON MODERNE
“MEDITATION” SEAL, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze
Height: : 9.5 cm.
Bibliography
Documents sur l’Art Industriel au vingtième siècle. Reproductions photographiques des principales œuvres des collaborateurs de La Maison Moderne, La Maison Moderne, Paris 1901, La Sculpture,
ill. p. 14, seal, n. 724-1
JOE DESCOMPS
SUSSE FRERES
“TANAGRA” SEAl, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze
Signed Joé Descomps and Susse Fres
Height: 9.8 cm.
FRENCH
“LES VIOLETTES” SEAL, CIRCA 1900
Silver
With French Minerva mark
Height: 8 cm.
Bibliography
An identical model in gilt bronze is illustrated in Les Sceaux, Empreintes du Pouvoir, Roberto Lucio Rosaia, éditions Langlaude, p. 176
BALUSTER VASE, CIRCA 1920
Hammered silver, decoration of bunch of grape and vine leaves in semi-relief
Signed jean serriere, with foundry mark A HEBRARD and Paris
Height: 14 cm.
“WOMAN AND PEACOCK” FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
Patinated gilt bronze, with the central motif decorated with a red cabochon, and each of the four feet set with a green cabochon
Signed Flamand
Height: 29 cm.
COUPE, CIRCA 1900
Silver, with incised decoration of stylized flowers
Design attributed to Maurice Giot
With French Minerva mark
6.5 x 21 cm.