“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
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
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
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
VASE, CIRCA 1904 Copper decorated with white and yellow cloisonné enamelled daisies on a green background
Silver mount by Edgar Brandt
Bearing the monogram of Ando Jubei
13 cm. high
Jubei’s cloisonné enamels are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert and the Walters Art museums
Bibliography
Robert de Souza, Oeuvres diverses d’Edgar Brandt, L’Art Décoratif, 1904, vol. II, p. 145 for a similar design
VASE, CIRCA 1910
Grès. Grey green dripping on a beige background. The red copper mount is hammered and hand tooled
Impressed signature and bearing the Brandt seal
32 cm. high
PAIR OF BALUSTER VASES, CIRCA 1870
Porcelain green celadon with crackled background. The neck is decorated with two small handles
The mount in gilt bronze with a design of garland wreath; bronze base
Bearing the original label: Maison Alph. GIROUX, F. DUVINAGE et A. HARINKOUK Fournisseur de LL MM l'Empereur et l'Impératrice…
70 cm. high
28 cm. wide
24 cm. deep
