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PIERRE-FELIX FIX-MASSEAU – “FEMME S’AMUSANT AVEC UN CHAT”, 1903

“FEMME S’AMUSANT AVEC UN CHAT”, 1903
Patinated bronze
Signed and bearing the foudry mark IHF
Height: 24 cm.

Bibiography
Art et Décoration, June 1903, page 201, Femme au chat, bronze, SNBA
“M. Fix-Masseau expose cette année une petite figurine en bronze de femme assise, s’amusant avec un chat, qui est d’une élégance et d’un charme exquis, avec cette note fantaisiste très personnelle à l’artiste. Son groupe de mère et d’enfant, par contre, nous paraît d’une exagération de mouvement un peu inutile, et la silhouette penchée de la femme a le tort, semble-t-il, de rappeler un peu trop sa Salomé de l’an dernier”
Paul Vitry, La Sculpture aux Salons, Art et Décoration, June 1903, pp. 199 & 200

Exhibition
SNBA, 1903, Objets d’Art, 88 – Femme s’amusant avec un chat (figure bronze)

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EDOUARD-MARCEL SANDOZ – “SINGE” WALL-LIGHT, CIRCA 1910

“SINGE” WALL-LIGHT, CIRCA 1910
Patinated bronze
Signed E. M. Sandoz
40 cm. high

The absence of a foundry mark indicates that it is a work made for his personal use or for a special commission. The items intented for edition were cast by Susse or Valsuani (lately). Robecchi executed works only at the sculptor’s request from plaster casts.

Bibliography
L’Art décoratif, May 1914, ill. p. 174
Félix Marcilhac, Sandoz sculpteur figuriste et animalier, ill. p. 390-391, n. 773

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RENE LALIQUE – “MONNAIE DU PAPE” CHALICE, 1904

“MONNAIE DU PAPE” CHALICE, 1904

Lost-wax cast glass
Signed on the base in intaglio: R. Lalique and dated 1904
Unique piece
Height: 19 cm

A model of the same shape, decorated with a design of anemones, is in the collection of the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, inventory no. 1264

This piece was not referenced in the first three editions of the Catalogue Raisonné by Félix Marcilhac. It was subsequently listed under CP2bis (with the description published under CP3quater wrongly attributed to a third party)

Provenance
Formerly in the collection of one of René Lalique's collaborators

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EMILE GALLE – DECORATIVE VASE, CIRCA 1878-1884

DECORATIVE VASE, CIRCA 1878-1884
Smoked glass, decorated with an historicising design engraved in intaglio and highlighted with gilding, the two rings decorated with polychrome opaque enamels
Bearing two inscriptions engraved around the rim: T Weilvaren” and “Van de Negoothie
Unsigned
Height: 23.5 cm – Diameter: 11 cm.
The subject chosen by Gallé is Mercury and Neptune watching over the fate of a rich ship, while the inscriptions may be translated as “twelve years of trade”
A related model is currently held in the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (inv. no. OAO 999)

Bibliography
Françoise Thérèse Charpentier & Philippe Thiébaut, Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Luxembourg, 29 November 1985 to 2 February 1986, Éditions RMN, 1985; a similar model is ill. p. 162

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EMILE GALLE – FAN SHAPED VIDE-POCHE DISH, 1874

FAN SHAPED VIDE-POCHE DISH, 1874
In smoked glass, enamelled with a painted decoration in blackish-brown and polychrome enamels, with intertwined foliage and a central hunting scene depicting hunters, a dog and game
Signed E. Gallé and dated 1874
30 × 33.5 cm.

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ALEXANDRE BIGOT – ALFRED JEAN HALOU – “SERPENT ENSERRANT UN CRAPAUD”, MODEL OF 1898

“SERPENT ENSERRANT UN CRAPAUD”, MODEL OF 1898
Very rare plate in grès
Signed and dated 1900
Tiny old restoration
Diameter : 27 cm

Exhibition
At the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Bigot had his own pavilion entirely made in grès.
He also exhibited afresco of three squares depicting a circle of toads after Halou.
At the end of the exhibition, the entire pavilion
was acquired by the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest

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EMILE GALLE – “AUX LIBELLULES ET PAPILLONS” CONSOLE, CIRCA 1900

“AUX LIBELLULES ET PAPILLONS” CONSOLE, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted walnut and exotic wood marquetry, mother-of-pearl inlay and bronze
Signed
138 cm. high; 74 cm. wide; 46 cm. deep

Only one variant of the design is recorded

Bibliography
A. Duncan and G. de Bartha, Gallé Furniture, Antique Collector’s Club, 2012, a variant ill. p. 272, pl. 4

Provenance
Private collection, France

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DAUM NANCY – RARE VASE, CIRCA 1892-1895

RARE VASE, CIRCA 1892-1895
Double acid-etched glass with a design of grasshoppers, flowers, insects, and an enameled butterfly, highlighted with gold
Signed
Height: 29 cm.

Exhibition
Similar model at the Kitazawa museum

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EMILE GALLE – CONICAL VASE, 1898

CONICAL VASE, 1898
Multilayered and wheel-carved conical vase with faceted corners in amber, purplish-blue and red marquetry glass, internally decorated with columbines on a background with silver foil inclusions, acid-etched, the original bronze base in the shape of leaves and spurs
Signed and dated 1898
26.1 cm. high

Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, 1898
Wood One Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan, 2005, n.33, ill. p. 36 in the exhibition catalogue
Emile Gallé – Nature and Symbol / Le Langage des Fleurs et des Choses Muettes, 16 January – 10 April 2016, Tokyo Metropolitan
Teien Art Museum; 24 April – 5 June 2016, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, n. 069, ill. p. 90

Bibliography
Revue des Arts Décoratifs, 1898, ill. p. 148
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999, ill. p. 319, n. 318
Emile Gallé et le verre, la collection du musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, Ed. Somogy, Paris, 2004, similar example ill. p. 164, n. 280

Provenance
Daimaru Museum, Japan

Other examples of this design are owned by important museums worldwide:
Kitazawa Museum of Art, Japan
Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf (Collection Gerda Koepf), Germany
Suntory Museum, Japan
Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, Nancy, France
Budapest Museum of Applied Arts, inv. n. 55.284, Hungary

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EMILE GALLE – “IRIS” VASE, CIRCA 1900

“IRIS” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass vase decorated with blooming water iris in glass marquetry,
some elements wheel-cut, with six vertical hot-applied elements
Signed with a double line

Exhibition
The model was exhibited at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition,
displayed in the Les Granges showcase
Our vase was shown at the Fine Arts Exhibition in Mulhouse in 1911, no. 14, p. 90
It was also included in the Gallé exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris from 29 November 1985 to 2 February 1986

Bibliography
Émile Nicolas, M. Émile Gallé at the 1900 Exposition, in La Lorraine, 18th year, no. 11,
December 1900, p. 164, for a similar example with a dragonfly
Roger Marx, La décoration et les Industries d’Art à l’Exposition de 1900, 1901, p. 107
La Revue Lorraine Illustrée, no. 3, 1906, p. 106
Bulletin de la Société Industrielle de Mulhouse, 1911, p. 4
A similar example was sold at Christie’s Geneva on 16 November 1981 under lot no. 228 (sold for 230,000 Swiss francs plus fees to Andrée Vyncke)
Georges de Bartha, Gallé, le verre, Bibliothèque des arts, Paris, 1985, p. 105, for a similar model
Françoise Thérèse Charpentier, Philippe Thiébaut, Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 29 November 1985 – 2 February 1986, Ministry of Culture, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1985, p. 212

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EUGENE MICHEL – EXCEPTIONAL VASE, CIRCA 1900

EXCEPTIONAL VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass with with gold leaf inclusions and blue and brown powder streaks, overlaid in black,
hammered and carved with a decor of a woman and reeds.
The mount in silver with a design of leaves on an openwork background.
Silver marks.
15.4 cm. high

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LOUIS HESTAUX – SIDEBOARD, CIRCA 1900-1910

SIDEBOARD, CIRCA 1900-1910
Rectangular low sideboard in fruitwood. The doors are decorated with molded panels carved in low relief with a wooded lakeside landscape, framed with carved branches. The panels are incised with the silhouette of a seated wolf—seen from behind on one panel, and from the front on the other. The drawer is bordered by a carved vegetal pattern. The oval keyhole are made of engraved metal with foliage.
Height: 93.5 cm.
Width: 143 cm.
Depth: 52 cm.

Provenance
From the descendants of Louis Hestaux

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ALEXANDRE CHARPENTIER – ALEXANDRE BIGOT – WINE JUG, CIRCA 1893

WINE JUG, CIRCA 1893
Enameled grès
Incised Bigot monogram under the base
Height: 25 cm.

Exhibition
SNBA 1893 (model in pewter)
Les Cinq, Paris 1896, n. 17
Alexandre Charpentier – Naturalisme et Art Nouveau, Paris, musée d’Orsay, 23 January- 13 April 2008 et Bruxelles, musée communal d’Ixelles, 29 May – 31 August 2008, n. 180 in the exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 175

Bibliography
J. Acheroni, Salon de 1893 – The Triumph of Pewter, Le Bambou, no. IV, illustrated periodical, pewter model illustrated p. 97
G. Mourey, The Decorative Art Movement in Paris, The Studio, March 1897, vol. X, n. 48, ill. p. 125
Madeleine Charpentier-Darcy, Introduction à l’art d’Alexandre Charpentier. Catalogue sommaire de l’oeuvre (sculpture – art décoratif), Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’art français, 1996, published 1997, ADc 45, p. 225 and manuscript
Hélène Bédague, Alexandre Bigot, Chimiste et Céramiste, éditions Louvre Victoire, Paris, 2016, ill. p.165

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ALEXANDRE CHARPENTIER – WINE JUG, 1897

WINE JUG, 1897
Glazed porcelain
Signed and dated 1897. Numbered 2
Height: 25 cm

From a limited edition of 20 copies distributed by Marty, the printer of L’Estampe originale, each sold for 20 francs

Exhibition
SNBA 1893 (model in pewter)
Les Cinq, Paris 1896, n. 17
Alexandre Charpentier – Naturalisme et Art Nouveau, Paris, musée d’Orsay, 23 January- 13 April 2008 et Bruxelles, musée communal d’Ixelles, 29 May – 31 August 2008, n. 180 in the exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 175

Bibliography
J. Acheroni, Salon de 1893 – The Triumph of Pewter, Le Bambou, no. IV, illustrated periodical, pewter model illustrated p. 97
G. Mourey, The Decorative Art Movement in Paris, The Studio, March 1897, vol. X, n. 48, ill. p. 125
Madeleine Charpentier-Darcy, Introduction à l’art d’Alexandre Charpentier. Catalogue sommaire de l’oeuvre (sculpture – art décoratif), Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’art français, 1996, published 1997, ADc 45, p. 225 and manuscript
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics / An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015,
ill. p. 105

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ALEXANDRE VIBERT – JOLLET & Cie – “THEODORA”, CIRCA 1906

“THEODORA”, CIRCA 1906
Parcel-gilt and silvered-bronze figure of the empress wearing the Byzantium crown,
heightened with translucent enamels and set with colourful semi-precious stones
Signed and impressed with the foundry mark

61 cm. high

Theodora was the wife of Justinian I who was crowned Emperor of the
Byzantine Empire in 527 AD. As his wife, she ruled by his side, and as his partner,
her intelligence helped to advance the Empire

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GUSTAVE KELLER – PITCHER, CIRCA 1900

PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Silver
French Minerva mark, silversmith’s mark, signed G. KELLER / PARIS
It was probably part of the set presented at the 1900 Exposition universelle and the 1903 Glasgow Exhibition
13.5 x 18 cm.