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 Glass and metal, multilayered yellow orange glass with metal inclusions Bearing the monogram of the artist JHD Height: 41.5 cm.
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
Read more BING & GRONDAHL – JENS DAHL-JENSEN – LA MAISON MODERNE – VIDE-POCHE, 1898 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 20 cm. high
Read more MANUEL ORAZI – LA MAISON MODERNE – RARE LITHOGRAPH “FEMME AUX ORCHIDEES”, CIRCA 1902-1904 RARE LITHOGRAPH “FEMME AUX ORCHIDEES”, CIRCA 1902-1904 Colour lithograph Signed, with the artist’s circular seal adapted from a Japanese motif 46 x 61.5 cm. Bibliography Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis Publisher, London, 2002, ill. p. 197-198 Manuel Orazi designed important Art Nouveau posters for La Maison Moderne, as well as for Sarah Bernhardt, the 1900 Exposition Universelle, Loïe Fuller, and the Palais de la Danse. His works in oils, gouache and watercolours were exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1897. He also supplied illustrations for periodicals and for books. As the principal artist working for La Maison Moderne, besides a poster, he created objets d’art and jewellery
Read more JULES HABERT DYS – TWO VASES, CIRCA 1910 TWO VASES, CIRCA 1910 Multilayered glass with powder and silver inclusions Each signed underneath 21.5 cm. high 16.5 cm. high
Read more EUGENE MICHEL – VASE, CIRCA 1900 VASE, CIRCA 1900 Clear glass, etched to simulate the movement of the waves, partly frosted, overlaid with enamel and wheel-carved with a decor of fishes and aquatic flora 17 cm. high Exhibition Bestiaire de verre, de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours, Musée du verre, Conches en Ouche, 9 March-24 November 2019, ill. pp. 20, 21 Provenance Leo Kaplan, New York, acquired in 2000
Read more EMILE GALLE – SMALL POT, CIRCA 1900 SMALL POT, CIRCA 1900 Clear glass with inclusions; with two applied handles, the decor in marquetry and chased Wheel-carved signature 9 cm. high 16 cm. long
Read more ERNEST BUSSIERE – KELLER & GUERIN – “BRACTEE D’OMBELLE”, CIRCA 1900 “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
Read more LUCIEN GAILLARD – BROOCH, CIRCA 1900 BROOCH, CIRCA 1900 Gold and enamel In its original box Signed
Read more AUGUSTE JEAN – PAIR OF BALUSTER VASES IN GLASS, CIRCA 1878 PAIR OF BALUSTER VASES IN GLASS, CIRCA 1878 Each resting on four applied feet, the necks pulled up to points, alternating with others running down, two large glass cabochons applied to the sides with a Japanese polychrome enamelled design, gilt Signed 57 cm. high Exhibition Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery, The Art of Glass – Art Nouveau to Art Deco, 17 July-27 October 1996 Bibliography Victor Arwas, The Art of Glass, Andreas Papadakis, publisher, 1996, p. 11, n. 10
Read more ALBERT DAMMOUSE – A RARE COVERED PITCHER, CIRCA 1890 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
Read more PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – ALPHONSE VOISIN-DELACROIX – VASE IN A SHAPE OF A FRUIT, ALSO KNOWN AS “COEUR DEVORE PAR UN ANIMAL”, 1892-1893 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
Read more JEAN CARRIES – JAPANESE BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900 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
Read more CHARLES MAURIN – “LA TOILETTE” “LA TOILETTE” Charcoal drawing Signed lower left 60 x 45 cm.