“TETE DE MEDUSE”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a dark brown patina
The base in marble
Signed i. de Rudder and H. Leppens & Cie
50 cm. high
Bibliography
De fait cette tête de Méduse date de 1899, et provient d’un projet de groupe monumental intitulé Persée et Méduse dont vous trouverez une reproduction d’atelier ci-jointe. Le groupe a été
détruit dans un accident du camion qui le transportait au retour d’une exposition. Seule la tête a
été reproduite, mais j’ignore le nombre de tirage fait par la fonderie Luppens. (Courrier reçu le
26 octobre 2019 de Monsieur Alain Gondoin, arrière petit-fils de l’artiste)
Provenance Symbolism & The Poetic Vision, Sotheby’s London, 12th November 2008, lot 213
VASE, CIRCA 1899
Iridescent glass with a floral design attributed to Loetz. The mount and the base in silver attributed to Debain.
With French Minerva mark; silversmith mark; Russian import mark 84
These pieces were sold at the Maison Moderne
The mount with two handles can be attributed to Henry Van de Velde
11.3 cm. high
BRETONNE A LA COIFFE, CIRCA 1900
Biscuit
Signed. Bearing the manufacturer seal for 1904 and the initials HR for Henri Robert (molder)
This model was also edited in bronze
11 x 12 cm.
“SENECON” VASE, 1905
Repoussé copper with silver inlays decoration; applied with a branch and foliage in chased silver
Engraved signature under the base and bearing the monogram of the artist
16 cm. high
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1905, ill. p. 61, n. 2337 in the exhibition catalogue
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, 22 October 1976-30 January 1977, Ein Dokument deutscher Kunst – Darstadt 1901-1976, n. 250
“CHARDONS” TEA, COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE SERVICE, CIRCA 1895
Comprising coffee pot, teapot, cream jug, chocolate whisk, sugar bowl and cover, and sugar tongs
in silver ; samovar, burner, and tray in silver-plated metal ; the handles in stained ivory
Each marked CARDEILHAC PARIS, with Minerva and silversmith marks
The samovar: 38 cm. high
The tray: 67.3 cm. wide
Bibliography
Dedo Von Kerssenbrock-Krosigt, Modern Art of Metalwork – Bröhan Museum,
Berlin, 2001, p. 385 (chocolate pot with mistletoe design illustrated)
Between 1894 and 1899, Lucien Bonvallet designed several silverware pieces intended
for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, all decorated with a vegetal pattern such as thistles,
columbines, mistletoe, clovers, etc.
These models were exhibited on the occasion of a retrospective dedicated to Lucien Bonvallet
in January and February 1913, at the Pavillon de Marsan, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
“QUI S’Y FROTTE, S’Y PIQUE” PLANTER, 1909
Grès with green, yellow, pink, purple and beige glazes
Signed J. Mougin andJ. P. Mougin céramistes underneath
Numbered 3144 and Esquisse de J. Mougin
34 cm. high
39 cm. diameter
Exhibition Exposition Internationale de l’Est de la France, Nancy, 1909
Bibliography Art et Industrie, January 1912
Catalogue de la maison Mougin, 1914, ill. pl. 1, n. 2
PENCIL BOX, CIRCA 1905
Hammered, wrought and engraved copper, gold and silver inlays; decorated in relief with an applied insect on an engraved background of leaves
Signed h husson
21.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm.
“L’APPARITION DU GRAAL A PERCEVAL”
Oil on panel
Signed
72 x 67 cm.
This painting depicts the moment in Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal when “The light radiates,
the Graal sets itself ablaze and a dove comes down from the dome above Parsifal.
He refuses to kiss Kundry whom remorseful falls and dies”.
“LA NIGELLE DES PRES”, AN IMPORTANT FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
Marquetry and finely wheel-carved glass, the pink surface overlaid with white
and blue flowers and an applied motif of brown branches
Engraved Gallé
20.5 cm. high
No other example of this design is known to exist
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, 1900, Paris
Bibliography Gallé, exhibition catalogue, musée du Luxembourg, 29 November-2 February 1986,
éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, ill. p. 54 in the “Les granges” vitrine
“SERPENT” DESK MAGNIFYING GLASS, CIRCA 1900
Brown patinated bronze, designed as two coiling snakes holding a citrine cabochon in their fangs
Signed
Possibly unique
No other example known to exist
27 cm. long
VASE, 1922-1923
Polychrome enamelled crackled ceramic, featurig three stylized women sitting in different postures
Signed R Buthaud
32 cm. high
25 cm. diameter
Exhibition Tamara De Lempicka, Reina del Art Deco, Palacio de Gaviria, Madrid, 5 October 2018-24 February 2019
Bibliography
Pierre Cruège René Buthaud 1886-1986, les éditions de l’amateur, 1996, front cover page and p. 79
Gioia Mori, Tamara De Lempicka, Reina del Art Deco, Palacio de Gaviria, Madrid, 5 October 2018-24 February 2019, Arthemisia Books, p. 148
“LES DEUX DOULEURS”, CIRCA 1910
Bronze with a black patina
Signed and bears the foundry mark of Susse Frères
Smaller version of the plaster cast of 1904
31 cm. high
Bibliography
Colette Dumas, Théodore Rivière, sa vie … son oeuvre, nd, the plaster cast ill. n. 126
VASE “CINERAIRES”, CIRCA 1910
Clear glass with white, yellow and blue inclusions
The flowers and leaves are acid-etched and wheel carved
Signed
40.5 cm. high
Bibliography
Clotilde Bacri, Daum, Michel Aveline éditeur, 1992, ill. p. 68
MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
In sculpted and patinated wood; with its box in sculpted and patinated wood
The mirror and the box signed
Mirror: 39 x 14,6 cm.
Box: 43 x 18 cm.
