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MAX BLONDAT – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Tear shaped grès vase enameled in tones of mottled green, the base with a circular mount featuring three turtles.
Impressed mark MB and numbered 2
Edited by the firm of Molines.
Height : 21 cm.

Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics, An Illustrated Dictionary, ill. p. 63

JEAN CARRIES – JAPANESE BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900

JAPANESE BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
Small Japanese stoneware bottle featuring a brown glaze with foamy drips in cloudy pink and blue cascading down from the neck
Signed and numbered 3, incised on the underside of the base
Height: 10.7 cm.

JEAN CARRIES – JAPANESE BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900

JAPANESE BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
Small Japanese stoneware bottle decorated with incised grooves and covered in a grey-green
celadon glaze, with pink glaze drips running down from the neck. Incised signature beneath the base
A 3.5 cm hairline crack on the body, caused by a firing defect
Height: 11 cm.

JEAN CARRIES – BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900

BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
Ovoid stoneware bottle with a small rim, decorated with flowing polychrome glazes in shades of brown, havana brown, and bluish grey
Signed and number 14
Height: 14 cm.

EMILE GALLE – PART OF THE “HERBIER” TABLE SERVICE, CIRCA 1868

PART OF THE “HERBIER” TABLE SERVICE, CIRCA 1868
Earthenware, painted in monochrome blue in the “grand feu” technique over a white tin-glaze, with shaped rims, comprising:
19 dinner plates
10 dessert plates
10 soup plates
2 sauce dishes
1 soup tureen
2 oval serving dishes
2 serving dishes

Signed with the Lorraine Cross monogram and/or signed Émile Gallé Fecit.

Exhibition
Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Luxembourg, for two cups with the same border, p. 104

Bibliography
Marc Bascou – Marie-Madeleine Massé – Philippe Thiébaut, Musée d’Orsay. Catalogue sommaire illustré des arts décoratifs, Paris, 1988, ill. of a plate held by the Musée d’Orsay
Le Tacon & Valk, Émile Gallé, L’amour de la fleur, Nancy, 2008, p. 318
Philippe Thiebaut, entry in Nouvelles acquisitions du musée d’Orsay, 1980–1983, Paris, 1983, plates and fish serving dish, n. 414–417, pp. 98–99
Françoise Charpentier, Philippe Husson, Bernard Ponton, Musée de l’École de Nancy. La céramique de Gallé, Nancy, 1984, cups listed under n. 4, p. 83
[Collective – Exhibition catalogue, curated by Philippe Thiébaut and Monique Nonne], Gallé, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 1985–1986, RMN, pp. 92–93 and 104

ALBERT DAMMOUSE – ERNEST-EMILE CHAPLET – HAVILAND & CIE – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Large stoneware vase decorated with stylized foliage and flowers, heightened with gilt
From the Rue Blomet period, after 1882
Signed with the incised H&C rosary mark, numbered 5, marked R,B,3,1
Height: 41 cm.

Bibliography
An identical vase decorated with swallows and honeysuckle is illustrated in Marc Ducret, Ernest Chaplet, la révolution du Rouge de Cuivre, Éditions Louvre Victoire, 2021, p. 81.

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

ALEXANDRE BIGOT – ALFRED JEAN HALOU – “SERPENT ENSERRANT UN CRAPAUD”, MODEL OF 1898

“SERPENT ENSERRANT UN CRAPAUD”, MODEL OF 1898
Very rare plate in grès
Signed and dated 1900
Tiny old restoration
Diameter : 27 cm

Exhibition
At the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Bigot had his own pavilion entirely made in grès.
He also exhibited afresco of three squares depicting a circle of toads after Halou.
At the end of the exhibition, the entire pavilion
was acquired by the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest

ALEXANDRE CHARPENTIER – ALEXANDRE BIGOT – WINE JUG, CIRCA 1893

WINE JUG, CIRCA 1893
Enameled grès
Incised Bigot monogram under the base
Height: 25 cm.

Exhibition
SNBA 1893 (model in pewter)
Les Cinq, Paris 1896, n. 17
Alexandre Charpentier – Naturalisme et Art Nouveau, Paris, musée d’Orsay, 23 January- 13 April 2008 et Bruxelles, musée communal d’Ixelles, 29 May – 31 August 2008, n. 180 in the exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 175

Bibliography
J. Acheroni, Salon de 1893 – The Triumph of Pewter, Le Bambou, no. IV, illustrated periodical, pewter model illustrated p. 97
G. Mourey, The Decorative Art Movement in Paris, The Studio, March 1897, vol. X, n. 48, ill. p. 125
Madeleine Charpentier-Darcy, Introduction à l’art d’Alexandre Charpentier. Catalogue sommaire de l’oeuvre (sculpture – art décoratif), Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’art français, 1996, published 1997, ADc 45, p. 225 and manuscript
Hélène Bédague, Alexandre Bigot, Chimiste et Céramiste, éditions Louvre Victoire, Paris, 2016, ill. p.165

ALEXANDRE CHARPENTIER – WINE JUG, 1897

WINE JUG, 1897
Glazed porcelain
Signed and dated 1897. Numbered 2
Height: 25 cm

From a limited edition of 20 copies distributed by Marty, the printer of L’Estampe originale, each sold for 20 francs

Exhibition
SNBA 1893 (model in pewter)
Les Cinq, Paris 1896, n. 17
Alexandre Charpentier – Naturalisme et Art Nouveau, Paris, musée d’Orsay, 23 January- 13 April 2008 et Bruxelles, musée communal d’Ixelles, 29 May – 31 August 2008, n. 180 in the exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 175

Bibliography
J. Acheroni, Salon de 1893 – The Triumph of Pewter, Le Bambou, no. IV, illustrated periodical, pewter model illustrated p. 97
G. Mourey, The Decorative Art Movement in Paris, The Studio, March 1897, vol. X, n. 48, ill. p. 125
Madeleine Charpentier-Darcy, Introduction à l’art d’Alexandre Charpentier. Catalogue sommaire de l’oeuvre (sculpture – art décoratif), Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’art français, 1996, published 1997, ADc 45, p. 225 and manuscript
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics / An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015,
ill. p. 105