SMALL SOLIFLORE VASE, 1906
Polychrome enamel on silver, decorated with a beetle on mistletoe branches
Signed in enamel: P. Bonnaud Limoges 1906
With French Minerva mark and silversmith mark BH (for Bouvier and Hammont)
Height: 12,5 cm.
Diameter: 6 cm
BALUSTER VASE, CIRCA 1925
Kaolinic stoneware, glazed in white-gray with yellow crystallizations
Signed Dalpayrat in relief and numbered 1220
Height: 19 cm
Probably made in collaboration with Frédéric Kiefer (1894–1977)
“LA GIROFLEE DE MURAILLE”, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass with four applied and wheel-carved flowers, gold leaf inclusions, partly hammered
Engraved signature
21 cm. high
Only one other example is known to exist
Provenance
According to previous owners, this vase was acquired at auction in Versailles around 1970 as therefore could be part of a group of vases sold by Emile Gallé’s descendants
PURSE, CIRCA 1907
Buckskin; the mount and clasp in repoussé silver decorated with flowers
The mount signed BAINE and with silversmith mark ES
17 cm. long
Exhibition
Salon d’Automne, 1907
Bibliography
Art et Décoration, November 1907, ill. p. 151
PAIR OF VASES DE SCEAUX, THE SHAPE DESIGNED IN 1896
Form designed by: Marie Louise Poitevin
Decorated by: Alexandre Blanchard (attributed)
Pair of porcelain vases decorated with Japanese camellia in shades of grey and blue, the flowers executed in pâte-sur-pâte
Oval mark S97 and PN (pâte nouvelle) under the glaze.
Height: 35 and 36 cm.
MILK JUG, CIRCA 1900
White porcelain, with an embossed leaf pattern in blue and pink around the neck. Silver lid featuring the same design
Signed on the base
Porcelain made by Louis Lourioux, Foëcy
With silvesmith mark and E. Lefebvre on the lid
Exhibition
Salon des Artistes Français, 1902
Art Nouveau Belgium/France
Rice Museum, Houston – March 26, 1976 to June 27, 1976
The Art Institute of Chicago – August 28, 1976 to October 31, 1976.
Catalogue n°300, illustrated page 203.
Bibliography
Art et Décoration, July 1902, page 24 L’Art décoratif aux expositions des Beaux-Arts, Armand Guérinet éditeur,
1ère série, 1902, pl. 72 and 73 Orfèvrerie Bijouterie Or et Argent, Catalogue de la maison Lelebvre, ill. 270 : Broc à lait n. 2415
Horst Makus, Keramik aus Historismus und Jugendstil, Kassel 1981, n. 67
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau, 1999, Arnoldsche, p. 166, n. 156
PRECIOUS BOX, CIRCA 1900
Chased silver with a design in light relief of foliage and fruits
With french Minerva mark and manufacturer’s mark
In is fitted box of the retailer Alfred Hamel
4.5 cm. high
8 cm. diameter
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Engraved marquetry with a design of ray and aquatic flora
Powder inclusions and inclusion of shattered gold foils, hammered with small facets
Silver gilt mount with French Minerva mark
Vertically engraved signature
17 cm. high
No similar example known to exist
Bibliography
For the same shape of the mounted vase: Tsuneo Yoshimizu, The Glass Arts of Emile Gallé, Gakken 1985, n.144; without the mount n. 143 and 184
Georges de Bartha, Glass by Gallé, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1984, p. 59, n. 61 (EU 1900)
VITRINE, CIRCA 1900
Decorated with marquetry panels and sculptures
of snails, bats, peacock moth and acanthus leaves,
the base entirely sculpted with bats
Signed
191 x 93 x 50 cm.
Another example
The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art, Japon, inv. n° ANF-360901
Bibliography
The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art, Glass, Ceramic and Furniture, Japon, 2010, ill. p. 114 & 115
Georges de Bartha & al, Gallé furniture, Antique collectors club, 2012, ill. p. 299
CUP, CIRCA 1904
Translucent polychrome enamel on soft white porcelain highlighted with gold.
Signed and dated C. Naudot 1904 and C.N. in gold
Height: 8 cm.
Bibliography
The porcelains by Naudot are illustrated in:
– Art et Décoration, 1901, volum II, page 52
– Der Moderne Stil, Julius Hoffmann jr., A. Guérinet, Paris, Librairie d’Art Décoratif, n.d.,
volum 4, pl. 44
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics, An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 289