CHARLOTTE BESNARD – ALBERT DAMMOUSE – “LA SALAMANDRE”, CIRCA 1903

“LA SALAMANDRE”, CIRCA 1903
Stoneware overlaid with sang-de-boeuf and beige glaze
Monogrammed AD and S (for Sèvres) and signed in full
20 x 21 x 15 cm.

Identical example inventoried in the collections of the Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-Arts
de la ville de Paris
A similar example was part of the Marcel Tessier collection, Les Arts du Feu, Drouot, Mes Glück et Mercier, 16 June 1978, lot 77

Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1903
Albert Besnard, Modernités Belle Epoque, Evian, Paris, 2016
Musée Galliera, Exposition de la Porcelaine, son décor, sa monture, 1907, described as “Statuette, Mme Besnard”

Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, Armand Guérinet Editeur, Paris, 1903, ill. pl.1.
Art et Décoration, June 1903, p. 200
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma Editions, 2015, ill. p. 57