Read more ROYAL COPENHAGEN – CHRISTIAN THOMSEN “CRABES ET ALGUES” VASE, 1901 “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
Read more LOUIS MAJORELLE – ERNEST BUSSIERE – KELLER & GUERIN – PITCHER, CIRCA 1900 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
Read more EDGAR-WILLIAM BRANDT – LETTER OPENER AND PEN HOLDER, CIRCA 1905 LETTER OPENER AND PEN HOLDER, CIRCA 1905 Hand tooled copper The letter opener is signed
Read more ERNEST-EMILE CHAPLET – CYLINDRICAL WASTED VASE, CIRCA 1900 CYLINDRICAL WASTED VASE, CIRCA 1900 Grès with a red glaze 8.2 cm. high 10.5 cm. diameter
Read more PAUL FOLLOT – LA MAISON MODERNE – HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1902 HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1902 Gilt and chased copper with turquoise cabochon Signed 28 cm. long Bibliography Der Modern Stil, Julius Hoffmann junior, A Guérinet, Librairie d'Art Décoratif, volume 4, ill. pl. 76, n.4 Documents sur l'Art Industriel au XXème siècle, édition de La Maison Moderne, Paris, Objets en métal, ill.p. 21, ref. 1072-1 Léopold Diego Sanchez, Paul Follot: un artiste décorateur parisien, AAM Editions, 2020, ill. p. 32
Read more RENE BOIVIN – SPOON, CIRCA 1900 SPOON, CIRCA 1900 Silver with a design of thistles With French Minerva mark and silversmith mark
Read more FRENCH – CHAMPAGNE GLASS, CIRCA 1900 CHAMPAGNE GLASS, CIRCA 1900 Silver and clear glass with a design of foliage With French Minerva mark and bearing the inscription: A . F . 20 Octobre 1826 20 Octobre 1906 12 cm. high 9.5 cm. diameter
Read more MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD – TEMPERA ON WOOD “OEDIPE ET LE SPHINX”, CIRCA 1910 TEMPERA ON WOOD “OEDIPE ET LE SPHINX”, CIRCA 1910 After an ink drawing by Charles Ricketts, R.A titled “Oedipe et le Sphinx” 34 x 24 cm.
Read more HENRI HUSSON – ADRIEN-AURELIEN HEBRARD – BOWL, 1910 BOWL, 1910 Chased and hammered silver, with a relief decoration of leaves and a cockchafer Signed and bearing the foundry mark A. Hébrard / Paris 5.5 cm. high 23.3 cm. diameter
Read more HENRI HUSSON – ADRIEN-AURELIEN HEBRARD – “SENECON” VASE, CIRCA 1900 “SENECON” VASE, CIRCA 1900 Bronze and silver, vegetal shape with an applied insect Signed H. Husson and A. HEBRARD PARIS and bearing the mark H h in a square 18 cm. high Exhibition Exhibition of fifty original works by H. Husson, Galerie A.-A. Hébrard, 8, rue Royale, Paris, number 44 Bibliography Dominique Forest, Marie-Cécile Forest, La Dinanderie Française 1900-1950, les éditions de l’amateur, Paris, 1995, ill. p. 8
Read more ALBERT DAMMOUSE – IMPORTANT BOWL, CIRCA 1900 IMPORTANT BOWL, CIRCA 1900 Pâte d’émail with a design of roses and foliage 13.5 cm. high 12 cm. diameter Exhibition Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis Publisher, London, 2002, ill. p. 513
Read more RENE LALIQUE – “LES TROMPETTES DE LA RENOMMEE” NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900 “LES TROMPETTES DE LA RENOMMEE” NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900 Gold, Pâte de verre and enamel Signed With its original chain In its original box Sold Exhibition Artistic Luxury-Fabergé Tiffany Lalique, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 19 October 2008-18 January 2009 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 7 February 2009-31 May 2009, ill. p. 108
Read more JEAN SERRIÈRE – ADRIEN-AURELIEN HEBRARD, BONBONNIERE, CIRCA 1900 BONBONNIERE, CIRCA 1900 Hammered and chased silver with a stylised decor Signed JS under the base. Bearing the foundry mark A HEBRARD / PARIS. With silversmith mark and silver mark (boar’s head) 14 cm. high; 26.3 cm. diameter
Read more LA MAISON MODERNE – HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1900 HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1900 Silver With French Minerva mark 23.5 cm. long Design probably attributed or in the style of Henry Van de Velde for La maison Moderne The mirror was made for the German restaurant Konss, designed by the German architect and urban planner Bruno Möhring (1863-1929). On Boulevard des Italiens in Paris, it’s interior decoration was commissioned to La Maison Moderne in 1901. The hand mirror was probably part of a set for the dressing rooms.
Read more JULES HABERT DYS – VASE, CIRCA 1910 VASE, CIRCA 1910 Yellow and orange multilayered glass with metal inclusions Bearing the monogram JHD 41.5 cm. high
Read more GEORGES DESPRET – YVONNES SERRUYS – VASE, CIRCA 1900 VASE, CIRCA 1900 Multilayered glass with powder inclusions imitating hard stones Signed, bearing the monogram of Yvonne Serruys and numbered 606 33 cm. high Bibliography “Le maître verrier Despret a eu l’heureuse idée de demander à un sculpteur de talent, Mlle Serruys, les belles formes robustes de ses coupes ; pour leur robe, d’une sourde splendeur, il semble avoir eu la collaboration de la terre et des siècles.” L’Art Décoratif, 1906, p. 182
Read more DAUM NANCY – VASE “VIGNE ET ESCARGOTS”, MODEL N. 2434, 1904 VASE “VIGNE ET ESCARGOTS”, MODEL N. 2434, 1904 Conical shape with circular foot, clear glass with colored powders inclusions, overlaid and cut with foliage and vines, two applied snails Signed 32.5 cm. high Bibliography The Daum firm has the original drawing for this and other vessels with the same decoration.
Read more SERAPHIN SOUDBININE – PAUL JEANNENEY – “LA DOULEUR”, 1907 “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
Read more RENE LALIQUE – “HUIT NAIADES” CIRE-PERDUE, CIRCA 1895-1900 “HUIT NAIADES” CIRE-PERDUE, CIRCA 1895-1900 Silver Signed LALIQUE 6 cm. high 16 cm. long 16 cm. wide Bibliography For the motif in ivory on a jewel by René Lalique, see the Lalique sale, Sotheby’s New York, 1 December 1995 A centerpiece with a similar motif in silver was donated by Mr and Mrs Gillion Crowet to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, in 2006. See Michel Draguet, l’Art Nouveau Retrouvé, Skira/Seuil, Milan, 1999 , p. 85
Read more DAUM NANCY – VASE, CIRCA 1900 VASE, CIRCA 1900 Acid-etched, wheel-carved and hammered glass, decorated with dahlias Engraved signature 18 cm. high
Read more ERNEST BUSSIERE – KELLER & GUERIN – “CHARDON” VASE, CIRCA 1900 “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
Read more ALBERT DAMMOUSE – GILBERT RENE PEJAC – TABLE LAMP, UNIQUE, 1910 TABLE LAMP, UNIQUE, 1910 The base in copper; the shade in pâte d’émail with a decoration of leaves and butterflies in flight 27 cm. high 11 cm. diameter At the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts of 1910, Gilbert Pejac exhibited two table lamps in patinated copper with shades by Dammouse The other was offered at Christie’s Geneva in 1993 Exhibition Musée du verre de Conches, Conches en Ouche, Animal – Bestiaire de verre de la fin du XIX siècle à nos jours, 9 March-24 November 2019, ill. pp. 32, 33 Bibliography Karin Blanc, Ferronnerie en Europe au XXème siècle, éditions Monelle Hayot, 2015, ill. p. 195 Provenance Acquired from Dammouse nephews
Read more LOUIS MAJORELLE – WALL PLANTER, CIRCA 1878 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
Read more LOUIS MAJORELLE – DAUM NANCY – TABLE LAMP, CIRCA 1900 TABLE LAMP, CIRCA 1900 Marmorean glass and wrought iron. The base in marble Dimension of the shade: 30 x 14 cm. 63 cm. high (with the base) This model is illustrated in the Maison Majorelle catalogue without the base