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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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