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  Hector Guimard for Maison Coilliot / Art Nouveau glazed lava tile 1898

  HECTOR GUIMARD  (1867-1942) France
  MAISON COILLIOT Lille, France

  Tile c. 1898

  Fired and glazed lava with abstract whiplash motifs in various tones of aqua blue on the obverse and a partial graphic on the reverse with polychrome floral and linear details.

  Marks: 16 (on top of tile)

  French architect Hector Guimard (1867-1942) realized the decorative possibilities of glazed lava, a substance made from mixing pulverized lava with clay when he built a villa for Louis Coillot, (1898-1900) a ceramics manufacturer in Lille who monopolized the distribution of the material. Guimard sided the entire facade of Maison Coilliot in lava stone.

  ***A related glazed lava tile from the Castel Henriette is in the Collection of the Musee d’Orsay.

  The Maison Coilliot is an Art Nouveau house located on 14, rue de Fleurus in Lille, France. Louis Coilliot, a French ceramic entrepreneur, was fond of enameled lava and wanted to popularize the technique. To do so, Coilliot commissioned Hector Guimard, an architect he’d met at the 1897 fair La Céramique et tous les arts du feu, (“Ceramic Arts & Glass Making”), to apply the technique to his house’s façade. Coilliot’s factory and warehouse were located to the rear of his house, and therefore the façade held a double
  purpose, both decorating the front of his home and advertising his business.

  For more information see: Hector Guimard, 1867-1942: Architektur in Paris um 1900 (Munich: Museum Villa Stuck, 1975)

  H: 25 1/2″ x W: 14″ x D: 9/16″

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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.

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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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  Maurice Bouval French Art Nouveau Nymph Silvered Bronze Candleholder c. 1900

  MAURICE BOUVAL  (born  Toulouse, died 1920)  France

  M. COLIN  France

  “Nymph Embracing a Blossom” candle holder  c.1900

  Silvered cast bronze in the form of a nymph on a leaf embracing a blossom

  Marks: M. Bouval (script signature) and COLIN, (Foundry) written above

  For other examples of Bouval’s work see: The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Vol. V: Objets d’Art & Metalware, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1999), p. 127; Ecole to Deco, Small Sculptures from a Private Collection, Stephen C. McGough ed. (Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum, 1979) pp. 33-4; Art Nouveau Sculpture, Alastair Duncan (New York: Rizzoli, 1978) pp. 30-1.

  H: 3″ x W: 6 1/2″ x D: 4 3/4″