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.
Amphora Art Pottery / Eduard Stellmacher Art Nouveau “Fern fronds” vase c. 1900
EDUARD STELLMACHER Turn-Teplitz, Austria
AMPHORA ART POTTERY Turn-Teplitz, Austria
“Fern fronds” vase c. 1900
Glazed earthenware with applied three-dimensional fern fronds
Marks: STELLMACHER TEPLITZ, Amphora mark, 1145, 7
For more information see: Deutsch Kunst und Dekoration, ( March 1901) pp. 346-349; Sammlung Bröhan: Kunsthandwerk, Glas, Holz, Keramik, Vol. 1 Band II (Berlin: Bröhan Museum, 1976), pp. 284-293.