COMTE ENGUERRAND DU SUAU DE LA CROIX – PLIQUE A JOUR ENAMEL PENDANT, CIRCA 1900
PLIQUE A JOUR ENAMEL PENDANT, CIRCA 1900
Green and red enamelled leaves and berries
The chain in silver
Pendant height: 4 cm
LOUIS ZORRA – BROOCH, CIRCA 1900
BROOCH, CIRCA 1900
Gold, pearls and chalceldony
Signed, with silversmith’s mark
Several jewels designed by Zorra are part of the collections of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg
Bibliography
The Belle Epoque of French Jewellery 1850-1910, London 1990, p. 206
RENE LALIQUE – “LES TROMPETTES DE LA RENOMMEE” NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900
“LES TROMPETTES DE LA RENOMMEE” NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900
Gold, Pâte de verre and enamel
Signed
With its original chain
In its original box Sold
Exhibition
Artistic Luxury-Fabergé Tiffany Lalique, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 19 October 2008-18 January 2009
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 7 February 2009-31 May 2009, ill. p. 108
LUCIEN GAILLARD – BROOCH, CIRCA 1900
BROOCH, CIRCA 1900
Gold and enamel
In its original box
Signed
EUGENE GRASSET – VEVER – “APPARITIONS” BROOCH, CIRCA 1900
“APPARITIONS” BROOCH, CIRCA 1900
Gold, enamel, ivory and cabochons topaz
Signed; with gold mark and maker’s mark
6 x 4 cm.
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, groupe XV, classe 95 (now at the Musée d’Orsay), ill. in colour on the cover
of the Decorative Arts catalogue of the Musée d’Orsay
Le Bijou 1900, Hôtel Solvay, Bruxelles, May 1965, n. 83
French Jewellery of the Nineteenth Century, Wartsky, Londres, 13-23 June 2001, ill. in color on the cover of the catalogue
Roger Marx, un critique aux côtés de Gallé, Monet, Rodin, Gauguin…, Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy,
6 May-28 August 2006, ill. p. 232, n. 170 in the exhibition catalogue
Eugéne Grasset, 1845-1917. L’art et l’ornement. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 18 March-13 June 2011,
n. 167, ill. p. 149
Bibliography
Maud Ernstyl, Les Bijoux d’Art à l’Exposition de 1900, Revue de la Bijouterie, Joaillerie, Orfèvrerie, n. 9, January 1901, ill. p. 152
Henri Vever, La Bijouterie française au XIXème siècle, Paris, 1908, ill. p. 669
International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery 1890-1961, Goldsmith’s Hall, London 1961 n. 352
G. Hughes, Modern Jewelry. An International Survey 1890-1964, London 1964, p. 103, ill. n. 172
Jean Lanllier, Marie-Anne Pini, Fünf Jahrhunderte abendländischer Schmuckkunst, München 1971, ill. p. 205
Victor Arwas, Berthon & Grasset, Academy editions, London, 1978, ill. p. 82
Anne Murray-Robertson, Grasset – Pionnier de l’Art Nouveau, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1981, ill. p. 90
Les Fouquet, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Flammarion, 1983, ill. p. 20
Vivienne Becker, Art Nouveau Jewelry, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1985, ill. p. 56, ill. n. 62
Michael Koch, Evelyne Possémé & al., Pariser Schmuck Vom Zweiten Kaiserreich zur Belle Epoque, Hirmer Verlag München, 1989, ill. p. 202, n. 123
A. Kenneth Snowman & al., Ma?tres Joailliers, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1990, repr. p. 150
Art Nouveau 1890-1914, V & A publications, 2000, ill. p. 23
Philippe Thiébaut et al., l’ABCdaire du Symbolisme et de l’Art Nouveau, Flammarion, Paris, 1997, ill. p. 51
Rolende van Strydonck de Burkel, Le Bijou Art Nouveau en Europe, Editions Racine, Bruxelles, 1998, ill. p. 96
Anne Murray-Robertson, Eugène Grasset – Un certain regard de la femme, 1998, ill. p. 50
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999, ill. p. 259, n. 261
JOE DESCOMPS – LEON GARIOD – GOLD, ENAMEL, PERIDOT, PEARL PENDANT, CIRCA 1900
GOLD, ENAMEL, PERIDOT, PEARL PENDANT, CIRCA 1900
Bearing the monogram of the artist
With eagle’s head and maker’s mark
Bibliography
We can compare this pendant to a pendant exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1901 and ill. in l’ Art Décoratif, July 1901, p. 142
Mario Amaya, Art Nouveau, Studio Vista Limited, 1966, ill. p. 113
Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt, Jugendstil schmuck – Die europäischen Zentren – Von 1895 bis 1915, Wilhem Heyne Verlag, München, 1998, similar example ill. p. 57
Imperishable Beauty – Art Nouveau Jewelry, MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, ill. p. 140, (Collection Sataloff)
EDMOND HENRI BECKER – COMB, 1902
COMB, 1902
Carved and patinated ivory
Bearing the monogram of the artist on the reverse
15 cm. long
The museum of Decorative Arts in Paris has two combs by Becker quite
similar to ours
Exhibition
Salon de la Société des artistes français, 1902
Exposition de la Parure précieuse de la Femme, musée Galliéra, 1908, similar model in carved horn
French Jewellery of the Nineteenth Century – A Loan Exhibition, Wartsky, London, 13-23 June 2001, ill. p. 47, n. 255 in the catalogue
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, July 1902, ill. p. 149
J. Tronçay, L’Art Décoratif au Salon de 1902, Revue de la bijouterie, de l’orfèvrerie et de la joaillerie, August 1902, ill. p. 128
L’Art Appliqué, 1903-1904, H. Laurens éditeur, ill. pl. 32
Exposition de la Parure précieuse de la Femme, musée Galliéra, 1908, edited by Armand Guérinet, similar model in carved horn ill. pl. 28
Béatrice Salmon, Chefs-d’oeuvre du Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, les Arts décoratifs, 2006, 222p. ISBN 2-901422-86-1 (p. 132-133)
EUGENE FEUILLATRE – “FEMME PAPILLON” NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900
“FEMME PAPILLON” NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900
Gold, translucent enamel, moonstone and pearl
With its chain
With gold mark and maker’s mark
7 x 6.8 cm.
Exhibition
Les sources du XXème siècle – Les Arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914, Musée national d’Art moderne, Paris 1960-1961, n. 901
Jugendstil, Sammlung K.A. Citroen, Amsterdam, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, 1962. A variant of this model is illustrated p. 23, n. 51
1900, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 14 March-26 June 2000, ill. p. 258, n. 263
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif aux expositions des Beaux-Arts, Armand Guérinet éditeur, 1ère série, 1902, variant of this model is illustrated pl. 215
Revue de la Bijouterie, Joaillerie et Orfèvrerie, July 1902, ill. p. 84
Art et Décoration, 1902, volum I, variant of this model is illustrated p. 93
Dekorative Kunst, München, 1903, variant of this model is illustrated p. 182
L’Art Décoratif, July 1904, p. 23
K.A.Citroen: Renaissance in edel metaal, in : Forum, Amsterdam, 1958-59, n° 11, p. 339, ill. 1.
Pariser schmuck von zweiten kaiserreich zur belle époque, Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, 1989, variant is illustrated p. 259 n. 184
Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt, Jugendstil schmuck – Die europäischen Zentren – Von 1895 bis 1915, Wilhem Heyne Verlag, München, 1998, model of the Museum of Darmstadt ill. p. 63