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  Désiré Christian / Meisenthal Art Nouveau Art Glass Gourd Vase c. 1885-90

  DÉSIRÉ CHRISTIAN (1846-1907) France
  MEISENTHAL (LOTHRINGEN) France/Germany

  Gourd vessel in the Japanese taste   c. 1885-90

  Wheel-carved and martelé French cameo glass with metallic inclusions and applied glass (blossoms, tendrils and butterflies)

  Signed on the bottom: Desire Christian, Meisenthal Loth

  For information on Désiré Christian see: The Glass of Désiré Christian, Ghost for Gallé, Jules S. Traub (Chicago: The Art Glass Exchange, 1978).

  H: 8 1/2″ x Dia: 4″

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  Mathilde Augé / Ely Vial Limoges French Art Nouveau Eucalyptus vase c. 1900

  MATHILDE AUGÉ France

  ELY VIAL  France

  Eucalyptus vase   c. 1900

  Colored enamels on copper with foil-backing depicting eucalyptus berries and leaves, gilt details

  Signed: MA (artist’s monogram)

  For more information see:  The Paris Salons 1895-1914 Jewellery, Vol. I: Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1994), p. 44; The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Objets d’Art et Metalwork, Vol. 5, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1994) p. 58; 1900, Philippe Thiébaut et al., exhib. cat. (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2000), p. 256.

  H: 10 1/2″ x Dia: 4 1/2″

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  Christian Thomsen / RC Denmark Rare “Frog and Dragonfly” Art Nouveau vase 1901

  CHRISTIAN THOMSEN (1860-1921) Denmark
  ROYAL COPENHAGEN

  “Frog and Dragonfly” vase 1901

  Glazed porcelain with a frog in 3-D sculptural relief looking at a dragonfly seated on a calla lily leaf looking up at the blossom.

  Form number 280

  Marks: ROYAL COPENHAGEN, CROWN, 465/250, 3 wavy lines (Royal Copenhagen) insignia, inscribed A. 250

  For more information see: Musterbuch KPF, um 1930, Illustration number 204; Porzellan, Kunst und Design 1889 bis 1939, vom Jugendstil zum Funktionalismus (Berlin: Bröhan-Museum, 1993) p. 467, ill. 435; Sammlung Bröhan: Kunsthandwerk 2, Metall, Porzellan (Berlin: Bröhan Museum, 1977), pp. 222-285.

  H: 9″ x Dia: 3 1/2″

  Christian Thomsen was employed at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory (Royal Copenhagen) in 1898, and was employed there until his death in 1921. Thomsen is said to have had a huge impact on Royal Copenhagen’s success throughout the 20th century. A large part of the recognition by the Royal Porcelain Factory has enjoyed over the years, they can thank Christian Thomsen for. He produced more than 100 different figurines, especially he had a fondness for agricultural characters, children figurines, figurines inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, fauns and trolls, and not least charming animals and bird figures.

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  Paul Follot for La Maison Moderne, Art Nouveau waist clasp, silver and chrysoprase, signed c. 1900

  PAUL FOLLOT Paris, France

  LA MAISON MODERNE Paris, France

  Art Nouveau waist clasp c.1900

  Gilt silver with chased whiplash design set with 19 cabochons of chrysoprase.

  Marks: P. FOLLOT, French swan mark (silver standard mark for small objects)

  Illustrated: Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXe Siecle (Paris: Edition de la Moderne) p. 20, plate 5, n. 53-11

  PAUL FOLLOT (1877-1941) French

  In the Late 1890’s, Follot studied under graphic designer Eugène Grasset at the Ecole Normale d’Enseignement du Dessin in Paris and later succeeded Grasset in that post. From 1901 to 1904, he designed metalwork, jewelry and textiles for La Maison Moderne, art critic Julius Meier-Graefe’s gallery in Paris. He became director of the interior design studio Pomone of the Paris department store Le Bon Marché in 1923, introducing the Art Deco style into many middle-class home.