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| 'Art Nouveau and Art Deco' auction on 15 and 16 November 2016
| Our next 'Art Nouveau and Art Deco' sale will be held in November. We would like to use the opportunity and draw your attention already to some exquisite pieces of our selection. René Lalique made the beautiful golden 'Femme Chauve-souris' pendant between 1898-1900. Inserted into a frame seamed with tiny diamonds, a fair bat-girl spreads her arms with enamelled wings. After 1895, Lalique finished his collaboration with major Paris-based jewellers, for example Cartier, to break new ground pursuing an artistic career in his own name. He explored new shapes and artisanal techniques. Dancing nudes and mythical creatures populate his brooches, pendants and tiaras alongside tendrils, flowers and insects. He was very adept in using the most diverse kinds of materials freely – brilliants, gems, tortoise shell, horn, ivory and above all, enamel, thus obtaining novel colour effects. One has to examine his pieces of jewellery closely in order to grasp their delicate colour and poetry. Upon request our experts will be happy to show you our jewellery selection in advance. Among the rarities waiting for you in November is also a 'Vol de Chauves-souris' vase by Eugène Feuillâtre, depicting flying bats over a dark fir forest at full moon. The goldsmith, born in 1870, counts among the greatest enamel specialists of his time. Between 1890 and 1897 he headed Lalique's enamel workshop, before opening his own business and specialising in enamelled silver. He mastered this difficult technique like virtually no one else, attaining delicate pictorial effects on vases and other objects d'art. High-quality pieces are in the French Glass section as well. You can find important designs by Henri Bergé for the Daum brothers here. For example, his 'Libellules et renoncules' vase from the year 1904, 20 cm high, featuring the famous dragonfly-circling-a-pond motif. It is taxed at a moderate €7,000 - 9,000. A tall vase with impressionist landscape by Bergé is estimated at €11,000 - 15,000. A fine collection of enameled landscapes is also remarkable, these vases have been very popular with collectors lately. Their estimates lie between €3,500 and 5,000.
The vase 'Souffleur de Verre à la halle' was made by Burgun, Schverer & Co., Meisenthal. Engraved is a depiction of a glass blower at the oven, 1897. €8,000 - 9,000 will be expected for it. The rich selection of Emile Gallé is led by a range of enameled early pieces.
Emile Gallé is also present in the ceramic choice. For example his 'Fritellino' jug, made as early as the 1880s, should receive €4,500 - 5,000. In the porcelain department, a mantlepiece clock by KPM Berlin, after a design by Martin Fritzsche, 1910, stands out. It is estimated at €4,000 - 5,000. Moreover, some lovely figurines by Scheurich should make collectors' hearts leap.
| | | | Bergé, Henri Daum Frères, Nancy Impressionist 'Paysage' vase, 1902 11000 - 15000 EUR | more ...
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| | | | | Feuillâtre, Eugène, Paris 'La Nuit' vase, model for the Paris World Fair, 1900 10000 - 14000 EUR | more ...
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| | | | | Adler, Friedrich Scherf, Walter, Nürnberg Two candelabrums, 1900 6000 - 7000 EUR | more ...
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| | | | | Mucha, Alphonse Champenois, F., Paris 'Salon des Cent', 1896 12000 - 14000 EUR | more ...
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