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ALIX MARQUET – SCULPTURE, CIRCA 1900

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.

FRENCH – PILLBOX, CIRCA 1900

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.

TONY SELMERSHEIM – CHARLES PLUMET – DESK, CIRCA 1900

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

EDGAR-WILLIAM BRANDT – DAUM FRERES – CEILING LIGHT

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.

EDGAR-WILLIAM BRANDT – DAUM FRERES – CEILING LIGHT

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.

EUGENE VALLIN – JACQUES GRUBER – FIRESCREEN, CIRCA 1900

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

ABEL LANDRY – COLIN & CIE. – TRAY, CIRCA 1900

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

ABEL LANDRY – LA MAISON MODERNE – PAIR OF CANDELABRAS

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

A GROUP OF SEALS, CIRCA 1900

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

ALPHONSE DEBAIN – VASE, CIRCA 1900

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.