PHILIPPE WOLFERS – CARVED IVORY ELEPHANT TUSK, 1896
CARVED IVORY ELEPHANT TUSK, 1896
Signed and date 96
Height: 40 cm.
Showing 1–24 of 211 results
CARVED IVORY ELEPHANT TUSK, 1896
Signed and date 96
Height: 40 cm.
FOOTED BOWL
Silver, decorated with stylized insects
Signed. With Minerva and silversmith’s marks
Height: 17.5 cm
Diameter: 30 cm
Weight: 2.850 kg
This is probably the “High Dessert Bowl” exhibited at Hébrard in 1907
Bibliography
Philippe Dejean, Bugatti, Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1981, illustrated p. 97
Bugatti: les meubles / Bugatti: les sculptures / Bugatti: les autos, L’État des lieux, Galerie Beaubourg,
Éditions de la Différence, Paris, 1995, illustrated p. 53 (period photograph). This publication
was produced on the occasion of the Bugatti exhibition at Galerie Beaubourg, Château Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, Vence, July–September 1995
Catalogue: Exhibition of Silverware by J. Baffier, E. Becker, Carlo Bugatti…, Galerie A.-A. Hébrard, Paris, 2–25 December 1907
LIQUEUR SERVICE, CIRCA 1900
Silver, columbine leaf decoration, comprising a tray, six liqueur glasses, and a crystal decanter
The crystal body of the decanter is decorated with flowers
With French Minerva mark, 1st standard (950 silver).
With silversmith mark
Signed CARDEILHAC in full
The tray: 18.7 × 28.8 cm.
Liqueur glasses: 4.9 cm.
Decanter: 24.2 cm.
TRAY, CIRCA 1900
Carved wooden tray, with silver handles decorated with a stylized floral motif
Bears the A G hallmark
Length: 63.5 cm.
Width: 34 cm.
TEA SET, CIRCA 1900
Tête-à-tête silver tea service with a mistletoe decoration, comprising a teapot with a sculpted wooden handle, a sugar bowl, a milk jug, an egg cup and a tray.
With French Minerva mark on the three pieces. Signed CARDEILHAC and bearing the silversmith’s mark, dating to before 1904
Teapot height: 12 cm
Milk jug: 3.5 cm
Rectangular stained and decorated wooden tray. It has a solid silver frame with floral decoration, silver side handles with trefoil motifs, and carved, patinated ivory grips
Pyrographed signature beneath the tray: Cardeilhac Orf. Paris
The silver mount is signed CARDEILHAC and bears the silversmith’s hallmark and the letter N.
Silver egg cup decorated with a mistletoe motif. Signed CARDEILHAC. With French Minerva mark
Height: 4.6 cm
Bibliography
L’Art décoratif, February 1901, page 197, illustration of the “Gui” coffee maker
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.
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
“ANCOLIE” BEAKER, CIRCA 1900
Silver, repoussé and applied decoration
Signed: Cardeilhac Paris and T
With French Minerva mark (at the rim) and maker’s mark (at the base).
Height: 18.3 cm.
“ZELANDAISE” TABLE BELL, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze
Signed
16.3 cm. high
Exhibition
Salon de la libre esthétique, Bruxelles, 1897
Bibliography
Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXe siècle, Edition de la Maison Moderne, Paris, n.d. , p. 15, n.647-1
COFFEE POT, CIRCA 1900
Silver decorated with clovers. Two-part body, interior in vermeil, with its tea strainer, carved ivory knob
Hallmarks
Height: 30 cm
VASE, CIRCA 1910
Small bronze vase with medal patina, decorated with finely chased foliage in light relief
Signed
Height: 14.5 cm.
BALUSTER VASE, CIRCA 1900
Patinated bronze
Signed H.E-T, A.B E. Gj – metod Sockholm Dec. A Granberg samt i botten HE Aa 5
Height: 16.5 cm.
SIX SHIRT BUTTONS AND THREE CLOAK BUTTONS
Gilded metal depicting Sarah Bernhardt in the role of L’Aiglon
In their modern case
DECORATIVE ELEMENT, CIRCA 1900
Copper and metal
Bibliography
Karin Blanc, Ferronnerie en Europe au XXème siècle, éditions Monelle Hayot, 2015, ill. p. 548
DECORATIVE ELEMENT, CIRCA 1900
Copper and wrought metal, decorated with three cherries and leaves
Unsigned
Bibliography
Art et Décoration, 1901, vol. II, “Les objets d’art aux Salons”, page 51 : “Ses adaptations de fleurs et de fruits pourront lui donner de très bons résultats s’il se préoccupe de corser un peu plus ses formes”
To be compared with a similar piece presented at the Société nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1904 and illustrated on plates 6 and 7 of L’Art décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, Librairie d’Art décoratif – Armand Guérinet, publisher
Karin Blanc, Ferronnerie en Europe au XXème siècle, éditions Monelle Hayot, 2015, ill. p. 157
“GYNECOLOGIE”
Ivory bas-relief titled Gynecology adorning the front cover of a red jansenist morocco binding by Edouard Pagnant, containing various documents concerning the physician’s achievements, created between 1898 and 1906 and offered by the artist to Dr. Samuel Pozzi
Signed. Spine with raised bands, titled S. POZZI – DIVERS in gold. Handwritten letter signed by Lalique dated 16 mars 1907
17 x 11.5 cm.
Exhibition
1900, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 14 March – 26 June 2000, ill. page 244, n. 243 in the exhibition catalogue
Bibliography
Alison Syme, A touch of blossom – John Singer Sargent and the queer flora of fin-de-siècle art, The Pennsylvania University Press, 2010, ill. full page 136 (interesting article on Dr. Pozzi)
DOOR PLATE, CIRCA 1900
Silver metal in the Secessionist style, with a circular door knob featuring a lizard motif
Length: 26.5 cm.
TRAY, CIRCA 1900
Silver, decorated with mistletoe
With Frech Minerva mark and silversmith’s mark
Dimensions: 34.5 × 56.5 cm.
BOWL, CIRCA 1900
Patinated bronze
Signed
Height: 23.5 cm.
Biography
Revue des Arts Décoratifs, 1899
Exhibition
Salon des Artistes Français, 1899
“WOMAN WITH BOW” CANDY DISH, CIRCA 1900
Pewter
Signed, bearing the foundry mark, Desbois monogram and numbered C 352
Height: 9 cm.
Length : 17.5 cm.
Exhibition
Maison Siot-Decauville catalogue, ill. p. 83
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Glossy white earthenware vase with openwork at the upper body, shaped like a scallop shell
21.5 x 23 x 10 cm.
SMALL SOLIFLORE VASE, 1906
Polychrome enamel on silver, decorated with a beetle on mistletoe branches
Signed in enamel: P. Bonnaud Limoges 1906
With French Minerva mark and silversmith mark B H (for Bouvier and Hammont)
Height: 12,5 cm.
Diameter: 6 cm
TWO MASKS OF AN ORIENTAL COUPLE
Painted plaster
Signed. The female mask bears a stamp: Carra Acha Alger
Height: 21 cm
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Patinated bronze
Signed H.E-T, A.B. E. Gj – metod Stockholm Dec. E. Kock samt i botten HE y6
Height: 22 cm.