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UNIKAT VASE, CIRCA 1900
White porcelain decorated with ginkgo leaves
Attributed to Christian Thomsen
Author of the shape: Arnold Krog, 1895
With manufacturer's stamp, numbered 203/135
16 cm high
Another example of this vase was acquired in 1897 by the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts
Bibliography
Dekorative Kunst, vol. 16, 1907, ill. p. 114
Berlin, Kunstgewerbe Museum, Werke um 1900, cat. n. 79
BOWL, CIRCA 1900
White porcelain decorated on the base with snails in shade of white, brown and blue. Below a frieze of white shells in light blue
Signed with the manufacturer’s stamp, numbered 1146, B&G and bearing the monogram of the artist
9.4 cm. high
17.5 cm. diameter
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Grès with two handles; gilt bronze mount
Signed BLACHE
24 cm. high
Bibliography
For vases with different shape, mounted with the same design, see Le Style Moderne – L’Art Appliqué, 1ère partie, H. Laurens, Editeur, pl. 34
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics / An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 62
IMPORTANT VASE, CIRCA 1900
Earthenware decorated with stylized flowers heightened in gold
Stamped with the Chaplet seal and in the decor Ed DAMMOUSE
37 x 24 cm.
PAIR OF BOTTLES “EPIS DE MAIS”, 1900
Glazed porcelain; each with original stopper
Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp for 1901
16.5 cm. high
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900
An identical bottle without its stopper was acquired in 1905 by the French State for the Musée des Ursulines in Mâcon and another one complete for the Musée de Saint-Nazaire. Both are today in the collection of the Cité de la Céramique in Sèvres. Another, with stopper, is in the Holburne Museum, Bath (Handley-Read collection), and a further example, without its stopper, is in the Musée des Beaux Arts de Quimper
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, October 1900, La manufacture nationale de Sèvres à l’exposition universelle, similar example ill. p. 12
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Polychrome earthenware with a design of flower buds and leaves
Signed KG/Lunéville/Majorelle
48 cm. high
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain vase, high-fired decor of ombelliferes on a blue-brown background
Openwork bronze mount
Signed P L and bearing the initials of Alphonse Lamarre
28.5 cm.
VASE “SNAKES”, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain
Marked with the artist’s monogram, bearing the manufacturer’s stamp and numbered 633/326
14 cm. high
Bibliography
Bredo L. Grandjean, Kongelig dansk Porcelain 1884-1980, Gyldendal, ill. p. 41
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Symbolist design of landscape and mushrooms
Bears makers and artist marks
30.5 cm. high
PAIR OF VASES, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain with a design of pansy. Openwork neck
One is signed and numbered 2069
The other is signed and bears the initials RR
21.5 cm. high
“CRABES ET ALGUES” VASE, 1901
Shape designed by Christian Thomsen
Decorated by Léon Boll
Marked with the artist’s monogram, bearing the manufacturer's seal and numbered 445/241 and 50
20.3 cm. high
PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Glazed stoneware, stylized vegetal decoration in relief
Signed K.G. Lunéville Bussière
28.5 cm. high
Another example of this model is part of the Collections of the museum of Lunéville, inv. n. C337
Exhibition
Céramiques végétales – Ernest Bussière et l’Art Nouveau, musée de l’Ecole de Nancy,
21 June-25 September 2000, ill. p. 43, n. 40 in the catalogue
Bibliography
Buffet-Challié, Laurence, Le Modern Style, Baschet et Cie Editeurs, ill. p. 112, n. 1
Roselyne Bouvier, Majorelle, Editions Serpenoise, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 2009, ill. p. 32
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics / An Illustrated Dictionary, éditions Norma, 2015, ill. p. 83
PLATE, CIRCA 1900
Stoneware
Stamped A DAMMOUSE, with the letter S (for Sèvres)
23 cm. diameter
Bibliography
Paul Arthur French, Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 327
No other similar piece executed by Dammouse is known to exist. Nevetheless we know Alexandre Bigot executed similar works designed by the sculptor Pierre Roche, who collaborated with Dammouse. This piece is probably a result of their collaboration
CYLINDRICAL WASTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
Grès with a red glaze
8.2 cm. high
10.5 cm. diameter
“LA DOULEUR”, 1907
Grès overlaid with green glaze
Signed and dated
35 cm. high
32 cm. wide
19 cm. deep
Bibliography
Marc Ducret and Patricia Montjaret, L’école de Carriès, art céramique à Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye
1888-1940, Paris, éditions de l’Amateur, 1997, similar example ill. p. 125
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics / An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, similar example ill. p. 349
VASE, CIRCA 1901
Porcelain decorated with peacock feathers,
the mount in vermeil with the same decor
The mount signed LOUCHET
11.2 cm. high
Exhibition
A variation of this design was displayed in 1901
In 1907 Pillivuyt & Cie. displayed about fifty pieces at l’Exposition de la porcelaine, son décor, sa monture
that was held at Musée Galliéra. The exhibition catalog mentions a silver mounted vase
with the same decor designed by Lamarre and mounted by Louchet (see exhibition catalogue, p. 5).
This is the vase that had already been displayed in 1901 (See The Paris Salons, vol. V, p. 391).
“CHARDON” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Glazed stoneware
28.5 cm. high
Similar example at the musée de l’Ecole de Nancy
Exhibition
Exposition de la Céramique, Esplanade des Invalides, Paris 1900
Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, 1903
Nancy 1900 – Jugendstil in Lothringen, Münchner Stadtmuseum, 28 August 1980-6 January 1981,
n. 410, n. 67
Céramiques végétales – Ernest Bussière et l’Art Nouveau, musée de l’Ecole de Nancy,
21 June-25 September 2000, ill. p. 46, n. 48
Bibliography
La Lorraine, July 1900, ill. p. 27
Der Moderne Stil, volume 4, Julius Hoffmann junior, ill. pl. 50
Klopp, Gérard, Nancy 1900 – Rayonnement de l’Art Nouveau, 1991, n. 217
Jean-Paul Midant, L’Art Nouveau en France, L’Aventurine, Paris, 1999, ill. p. 35
WALL PLANTER, CIRCA 1878
Earthenware, japanese decor in semi-relief of a bird fisching a carp
Made in the Toul workshop
Signed
34 cm. diameter
VIDE-POCHE, 1898
Bluish white poreclain
Signed and dated 98. Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp
This model is illustrated in the Maison Moderne catalogue under the number 1349-11
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Polychrome porcelain with four openwork handles
Marked Porcelaine Nlle and numbred 7031
25 cm. high
“BRACTEE D’OMBELLE”, CIRCA 1900
Earthenware vase decorated with low-fired metallic iridescent glaze, decorated with leaves and openwork stems
Signed underneath K.G. Lunéville BUSSIERE
28 cm. high
Exhibition
Exposition de l’Alliance Provinciale des Industries d’Art, Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, March 1903
Nancy 1900 Jugendstil in Lothringen, Münchner Stadtmuseum, 1980, n. 409, p. 365
Christian Debize, L’Ecole de Nancy, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1993, ill. p. 89
Céramiques végétales – Ernest Bussière et l’Art Nouveau – Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, 21 June-25 September 2000, ill. p. 44
A RARE COVERED PITCHER, CIRCA 1890
Glazed stoneware, thickly overlaid with sang-de-boeuf glaze, the lid in vermeil stylized as a flower
Impressed circular signature A DAMMOUSE S (for Sèvres)
with silversmith and French Minerva marks
18.5 cm. high
VASE IN A SHAPE OF A FRUIT, ALSO KNOWN AS “COEUR DEVORE PAR UN ANIMAL”, 1892-1893
Grès with a sang-de-boeuf and green glaze
Signed
23 cm. high
Exhibition
Adrien Dalpayrat / Céramique française de l’Art Nouveau, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 1998,
similar model ill. p. 139 n. 79
Bibliography
Henri-Pierre Fourest & al., L’art de la Poterie en France de Rodin à Dufy, Sèvres, Musée national
de la céramique, 1971, ill. n. 83
Hakenjos, Berndt & Ekkart Klinge, Europäische des Jugendstils, Düsseldorf, Hetjens museum,
1974, p. 29, n. 29
Lynne Thornton & Antoine Alain Glück, L’Art en marge des Grands Mouvements, Salons et Visionnaires de 1880 à 1930,
Paris, Etude Pillias, 1974, p. 66, n. 116
Arielle Guillaume & al., Alphonse Voisin-Delacroix, Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’
Archéologie de Besançon, 1993, p. 801, n. 58
JAPANESE BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
Glazed stoneware, multilayered in brown, blue and pink dripping
Signed and numbered 30 underneath
15.5 cm. high
Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015,
ill. p. 93
Frédéric Descouturelle, Olivier Pons, La céramique et la lave émaillée d’Hector Guimard, Edition du Cercle Guimard, p. 15
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Maître Francis Lombrail, Paris
