EMILE GALLE – FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
Smoky glass, polychrome enameled with a carved and enameled praying mantis and blooming flowers
Unsigned
Height: 22 cm.
Provenance
The artist’s family by descent
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FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
Smoky glass, polychrome enameled with a carved and enameled praying mantis and blooming flowers
Unsigned
Height: 22 cm.
Provenance
The artist’s family by descent
“FILLETTE SE CHAUSSANT”
Bronze sculpture with brown patina
Signed B. Hoetger Paris
19 x 11 x 11 cm.
SCULPTURE, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a medal and brown patina featuring a reclining nude young woman
Black marble base with brown veining
Signed and bearing the circular stamp MEDAILLE D’HONNEUR.
Length: 35.5 cm.
Height: 26 cm.
Base in marble: 38.5 x 22 x 4 cm.
“BACCHANTE”
Bronze with a green patina featuring a dancer. The base decorated with vine and grape motifs
Signed, bearing the editor’s mark
Height: 53.3 cm. (56 cm. with the base)
BOOKENDS, CIRCA 1900
Wood and repoussé copper
Unsigned
Each: 38.5 x 15 cm.
“VIERGE A L'ENFANT”
Polychrome enamel on copper
Signed
21 x 15 cm.
PILLBOX, CIRCA 1900
Pâte de verre, the mount in vermeil
The lid is decorated with gold foil and green and red powder inclusions. The upper surface is engraved
and enameled with small flowers. The leaves are encircled and gold-rimmed in shades of pink,
opal, and green. The sides are decorated with four vertical cartouches featuring the same design, framed in vermeil
Two boar’s head marks
Maker’s mark: A P (unidentified, possibly Adolphe Perrier?)
Diameter: 4.8 cm.
Height: 2.6 cm.
DESK, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted pear wood and gilt bronze
131 x 161 x 88 cm.
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1897 for a variation of this design
Bibliography
Art et Décoration, April1897, the model without the side elements ill. p. 107
Der Modern Stil, Julius Hoffmann éditeur, 1899,
vol. I, ill. pl. 64, for the one exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
Der Moderne Stil, 1903, ill. pl. 82
CEILING LIGHT
Bronze and wrought iron ceiling light decorated with Ginkgo biloba motifs, featuring four arms supporting Daum tulip shades in milky-white mottled glass, and a central Daum glass bowl
The mount is signed E BRANDT; the glass shades are wheel-engraved and signed Daum Nancy France, with the Cross of Lorraine
Total height: 104 cm.
Width: 69 cm.
CEILING LIGHT
Bronze and wrought iron ceiling light with four arms supporting orange tulip shades by Daum, and a central orange glass bowl by Daum
The ceiling light is signed: E. Brandt
The tulip shades and the bowl are signed
Height: 63 cm.
Total diameter: 67 cm.
FIRESCREEN, CIRCA 1900
Carved walnut with inlaid panels of etched glass with clematis flowers and leaves.
123.5 cm. high; 104.5 cm. wide
Bibliography
Frédéric Descouturelle, Eugène Vallin, Menuisier d’Art de l’Ecole de Nancy, Imprimerie Moderne, Pont-à-Mousson, 1998, a variation of the design ill. p. 209
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis publisher, 2002, ill. p. 320
Ecran de cheminée en noyer massif mouluré encadrant un panneau de Gruber en verre de couleur gravé à décor de clématites.
Hauteur : 123,5 cm
Largeur max : 104,5 cm
Bibliographie
Frédéric Descouturelle, Eugène Vallin, Menuisier d’Art de l’Ecole de Nancy, Imprimerie Moderne, Pont-à-Mousson, 1998, forme du modèle reproduite page 209.
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau – The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis publisher, 2002, rep. p. 320
“Vase de Creusot”, 1898
White porcelain (pâte dure nouvelle) glazed in shades of green and yellow with a decor of irisis
Signed in gold L. MIMARD and bearing the manufacturer’s stamp for 1898
and the decoration stamp for 1901
Height: 45 cm.
TRAY
Silvered bronze, decorated with foliage. Handles shaped as snakes
Signed A Landry and Colin
Length: 67 cm.
Width: 34.5 cm
Exhibition
Salon de 1903
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, 1903, Armand Guérinet éditeur, ill. pl. 187
PAIR OF CANDELABRAS
Silvered pewter
Height: 28.5 cm.
Bibliography
Illustrated in the catalogue of La Maison Moderne
The Modern Style, J. Hoffmann Jr, p. 221
Le Style Moderne: L’Art Appliqué, Revue Internationale, Première Année, H. Laurens – éditeur, 1903-1904, ill. pl. 92
PAIR OF CANDELABRAS, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze with original patina
Signed
33 cm. high
Bibliography
Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXème siècle, edited by La Maison Moderne, Paris, Les appareils d’éclairage, ill. p. 7, under the reference “Candélabre n°1561-1”
CANDLESTICK, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze with its receptacle and match scraper
Signed
Height: 18.5 cm.
Width: 18.2 cm.
TABLE LAMP, CIRCA 1907
Dark patinated bronze
Signed
Height: 48.5 cm high
Bibliography
Répertoire d’art décoratif moderne, tome III, ill. p. 60, n. 76
LAMP, CIRCA 1910
Glass with yellow and orange powder inclusions
Height: 43 cm.
THEOPHILE HINGRE
LOUCHET, Chaser
Silvered bronze, featuring two dragonflies facing each other on a sprig of lily of the valley
Signed T. HINGRE and LOUCHET
9.8 cm. high
GUSTAVE GURSCHNER
LA MAISON MODERNE
“MEDITATION” SEAL, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze
Height: : 9.5 cm.
Bibliography
Documents sur l’Art Industriel au vingtième siècle. Reproductions photographiques des principales œuvres des collaborateurs de La Maison Moderne, La Maison Moderne, Paris 1901, La Sculpture,
ill. p. 14, seal, n. 724-1
JOE DESCOMPS
SUSSE FRERES
“TANAGRA” SEAl, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze
Signed Joé Descomps and Susse Fres
Height: 9.8 cm.
FRENCH
“LES VIOLETTES” SEAL, CIRCA 1900
Silver
With French Minerva mark
Height: 8 cm.
Bibliography
An identical model in gilt bronze is illustrated in Les Sceaux, Empreintes du Pouvoir, Roberto Lucio Rosaia, éditions Langlaude, p. 176
“L’HOMME QUI COURT APRES LA FORTUNE”, LES FABLES DE LA FONTAINE, 1886,
after Gustave Moreau
Black engraving on Japan paper (crease marks)
Signed G. Moreau, in progress for the proprietors M. and Mme Bounod Valadon and 5ème tirage
27.5 x 21.5 cm.
“LE SONGE D’UN HABITANT DU MOGOL”, LES FABLES DE LA FONTAINE, 1886,
after Gustave Moreau
Black engraving on Japan paper (crease marks)
Signed G. Moreau, in progress for the proprietors M. and Mme Bounod Valadon and 5ème tirage
27.5 x 21.5 cm.
“LA TETE ET LA QUEUE DU SERPENT”, LES FABLES DE LA FONTAINE, 1886,
after Gustave Moreau
Black engraving on Japon paper (crease marks)
Signed G. Moreau, in progress for the proprietors M. and Mme Bounod Valadon and 5ème tirage
28.5 x 19.5 cm.
“LE LION AMOUREUX”, LES FABLES DE LA FONTAINE, 1886, after Gustave Moreau
Black engraving on Japon paper (crease marks)
Signed G. Moreau, In progress for the proprietors M Mme Bounod Valadon and 3ème tirage
26.5 x 19.5 cm.
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Red flamed ceramic, with an openwork ‟whiplash” mount at the base in the style of van de Velde, and the neck designed in the same spirit
With French Minerva mark and silversmith mark
Height: 14 cm.