EDWARD COLONNA – L’ART NOUVEAU BING – GDA LIMOGES – SERVICE CANTON, CIRCA 1904
SERVICE CANTON, CIRCA 1904
Coffee cup and saucer designed by Edward Colonna for L’Art Nouveau Bing
Ivory colored porcelain manufactured by GDA in Limoges, with incised Art Nouveau decoration and a design enameled in celadon and rose
Bearing the Art Nouveau Paris green enameled stamp
Cup height: 5.5 cm.
Diameter of the saucer: 13.5 cm.
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, April 1901, pp. 12 & 13 : Illustration of other pieces from the service Canton
Art Nouveau Belgium / France, Houston & Chicago, 1976, similar model with a different design,
n. 246, page 178
Chefs-d’œuvre de la porcelaine de Limoges, Musée du Luxembourg, 1996, page 256 : Illustration of a cup and its saucer, Canton model
Edith Mannoni, Porcelaines de Limoges, Massin éditeur, sd., page 90 : Illustration of three pieces from the service Canton
Gabriel Weisberg, Art Nouveau Bing – Paris style 1900, Harry N. Abrams, inc., New York, 1986, pp. 197 & 200: Illustration of other pieces from the service Canton