BOWL, CIRCA 1900
White porcelain decorated on the base with snails in shade of white, brown and blue. Below a frieze of white shells in light blue
Signed with the manufacturer’s stamp, numbered 1146, B&G and bearing the monogram of the artist
9.4 cm. high
17.5 cm. diameter
IMPORTANT VASE, CIRCA 1900
Earthenware decorated with stylized flowers heightened in gold
Stamped with the Chaplet seal and in the decor Ed DAMMOUSE
37 x 24 cm.
PAIR OF BOTTLES “EPIS DE MAIS”, 1900
Glazed porcelain; each with original stopper
Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp for 1901
16.5 cm. high
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900
An identical bottle without its stopper was acquired in 1905 by the French State for the Musée des Ursulines in Mâcon and another one complete for the Musée de Saint-Nazaire. Both are today in the collection of the Cité de la Céramique in Sèvres. Another, with stopper, is in the Holburne Museum, Bath (Handley-Read collection), and a further example, without its stopper, is in the Musée des Beaux Arts de Quimper
Bibliography L’Art Décoratif, October 1900, La manufacture nationale de Sèvres à l’exposition universelle, similar example ill. p. 12
“MELANCOLIE”
Bronze with a brown patina
Signed and bearing the foudry mark I H F Paris
Exhibition
SNBA, 1901 (plaster)
Bibliography L’Art Décoratif, December 1901, p. 111, model in plaster ill. “…C’est la Mélancolie, avec la vérité de la pose de tout le corps, d’un bras abandonné sur les genoux, du visage penché sur l’autre bras reployé et soutenu par le dossier du siège”
VASE, BEFORE 1889
“Cristallerie” glass engraved in intaglio and enameled
Signed with a diamond point
Design attributed to Louis Hestaux
Height: 19.5 cm.
VASE, CIRCA 1910-1912
Stoneware vase in yellow ochre in the shape of a cone turned upside down and sunk neck leaving in reserve four handles, enhanced with lines and dots in gold
Signed
Small firing crack at the base
21,5 cm. high
Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics / An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 347
PEDESTAL TABLE, CIRCA 1900
Marquetry on the upper shelf. Bears the inscription Semper gardate and is signed in marquetry within a cartouche Gallé 1898
Height: 75.5 cm. Top: 71 × 41.5 cm.
DRESSING TABLE, CIRCA 1900
Carved wood with a vegetal decor
146 cm. high
Bibliography
Laurence Buffet-Challié Le Modern Style, Baschet & Cie, éditeurs, n.d., ill. p. 66, falsely attributed to Georges Hoentschel
Coiffeuse en noyer ciré teinté et érable blanc sculpté d’un décor végétal Hauteur de la table : 75,5 cm Hauteur totale : 146 cm Largeur max. du plateau : 90 cm
Bibliographie Laurence Buffet-Challié, Le Modern Style, Baschet & Cie, éditeurs, n.d., repr. p. 66, faussement attribué à Georges Hoentschel
THREE-LEAF SCREEN, CIRCA 1899
Rosewood and embroidered felt. Carved Art Nouveaud design
The panels in green felt, decoration of stylized water lilies
135 cm. high
137 cm. wide
BONBONNIERES, CIRCA 1900
Hammered copper. The lid is decorated with a cherry branch, three cherries and a leaf in hammered copper
Signed with the monogram of the artist
7 cm. high
13.5 cm. diameter
Patinated hammered copper
Bearing the monogram of the artist
9.7 cm. diameter
4.2 cm. high
VASE, CIRCA 1889
Polychrome “cristallerie” glass decorated with enamelled water lilies, aquatic flowers, stems,
and three dragonflies; original bronze base decorated with four snails
Enamelled signature in Japanese style
17 cm. high
UMBRELLA STAND “AUX GRENOUILLES”, CIRCA 1900
Carved wood and exotic wood marquetry, decorated with flowers and mushrooms
With its inner case
Signed
70.5 x 46 x 24 cm.
Bibliography Art Nouveau Belgium-France, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1976,
p. 224, n. 341
“DEUX DANSEUSES”, CIRCA 1905
Bronze; representing two naked dancers, one holding a tambourine, the other a laurel wreath
Signed and marked Fumière et Gavinot Thiébaut fondeurs
19 cm. high
A similar example is to be found at the musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, gift of Mr Henry Vasnier, 1907
Exhibition
1905, Galerie Chaine et Simonson, vitrine XI
Bibliography
Louis Delteil, Théodore Rivière, Revue des Arts décoratifs, 1899, ill. p. 308
Albert Thomas, Théodore Rivière, l'Art décoratif, n. 40, January 1902, ill. p. 133
Louis Vauxelles, Gil Blas, 17 November 1907
Il s'agit de deux personnages détachés du groupe “Mathô vaincu, Défilé de la Hâche ou Retour de Mathô à Carthage ou L'Eléphant d'Hamilcar” dont la maquette en plâtre de 1893, aujourd'hui détruite, figura au Salon des Artistes Français de 1894, n°3536, et pour laquelle l'artiste obtint une médaille de 3ème classe. La place de cette sculpture dans le groupe se situe à droite de la patte arrière droite de l'éléphant.
Une autre maquette en plâtre teinté, terre cuite, fil de fer et bois provenant de l'atelier du sculpteur dispersé à Lyon en 1972 a été reconstituée en 1930 par la fille de l'artiste et se trouve aujourd'hui au Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres
“FLANEUSE N. 43” ARMCHAIR
Carved oak and original tooled leather
104 x 75 x 90 cm.
The model illustrated in the catalogue of La Maison Moderne is made of antelope leather lined with silk.
Our example is identical to the one exhibited at the 1906 SAD (Société des Artistes Décorateurs)
Exhibition
Société des Artistes Décorateurs, 1906
Bibliography “Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXe siècle”, édition de la Maison Moderne, Paris, ill p. 16 (Ameublement et Décoration)
L’Art Décoratif, January 1903, ill. p. 19
Georges de Bartha, L’Art 1900, sd, ill. p. 140
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999, ill. p. 165, n. 153
Provenance
Maison Moinat, Rolle, Switzerland
Neumann collection, Gingins, Switzerland, acquired in 1971
SALON SUITE, CIRCA 1900
Carved mahogany; comprising:
One sofa, two armchairs, two chairs
The sofa: 93 cm. high; 161.5 cm. wide
Each armchair: 101 cm. high; 64 cm. wide
Each chair: 92.5 cm. high; 46 cm. wide
Exhibition
Another example of this salon suite was exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, Paris, in Siegfried Bing’s pavilion, L’Art Nouveau Bing, with a multitude of artworks including jewellery by Edward Colonna and other furniture and decorative objects by Georges de Feure, Eugène Gaillard and Marcel Bing