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Louis Majorelle French Art Nouveau “Fiddleback Fern” bowl c. 1900
LOUIS MAJORELLE (1859-1926) France
MOUGIN FRÈRES Nancy, France
Fiddleback Fern trefoil bowl c. 1900
A rare stoneware example of Majorelle and the L’Ecole de Nancy with a mauve and sea-green glaze, crystalline formations in interior in a trefoil loped form with fiddleback ferns at each interval.
Marks: Majorelle. de (impressed facsimile signature) MOUGIN NANCY, 10.K , L
Illustrated: Majorelle: Une Aventure Moderne, Roselyne Bouvier (Paris:
La Bibliothèque des Arts/Editions Serpenoise, 1991) p. 34, illus. 32.
H: 3 1/4″ x W: 6 3/4″
Louis Majorelle French Art Nouveau “Fiddleback Fern” bowl c. 1900
JEAN BAROL (1873-1966) France
MONTIERES (founded 1917) Montieres-les-Amiens, France
“Celestial Star, Planet and Comet” iridescent vase c. 1920
Earthenware in a spherical form with four flanges in an overall purple, red, blue, green, gold iridescent glaze
Marks: Montieres (inscribed in the glaze, near the Saturn)
H: 6 1/4″ x W: 6 1/4″ x D: 6 1/4″