MILK JUG, CIRCA 1900
White porcelain, with an embossed leaf pattern in blue and pink around the neck. Silver lid featuring the same design
Signed on the base
Porcelain made by Louis Lourioux, Foëcy
With silvesmith mark and E. Lefebvre on the lid
Exhibition
Salon des Artistes Français, 1902
Art Nouveau Belgium/France
Rice Museum, Houston – March 26, 1976 to June 27, 1976
The Art Institute of Chicago – August 28, 1976 to October 31, 1976.
Catalogue n°300, illustrated page 203.
Bibliography
Art et Décoration, July 1902, page 24 L’Art décoratif aux expositions des Beaux-Arts, Armand Guérinet éditeur,
1ère série, 1902, pl. 72 and 73 Orfèvrerie Bijouterie Or et Argent, Catalogue de la maison Lelebvre, ill. 270 : Broc à lait n. 2415
Horst Makus, Keramik aus Historismus und Jugendstil, Kassel 1981, n. 67
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau, 1999, Arnoldsche, p. 166, n. 156
PRECIOUS BOX, CIRCA 1900
Chased silver with a design in light relief of foliage and fruits
With french Minerva mark and manufacturer’s mark
In is fitted box of the retailer Alfred Hamel
4.5 cm. high
8 cm. diameter
SIX SALT CELLARS, CIRCA 1900
Silver, each with a different design of leaves, including mistletoe, clover, columbine and holly
Signed
Modern fitted box
With silversmith marks
Height: 2.1 cm.
Width: 6.8 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.
SOLD
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.
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
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.
PLATE, CIRA 1900
Chased and repoussé vermeil with a design of flowers and leaves. In the center an engraved band AULTRE NE VEUX (Want no other).
Signed under the base Falize orf.
In its fitted box
With French Minerva mark and silversmith mark
19.5 cm. diameter
Exhibition Falize – A dinasty of Jewelers, Wartski, Londres, June 10 – June 19,1999, n° 166.
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
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.
