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  Rococo Revival 19th Century Wine Ewer c.1895

  Rococo Revival, 19th Century

  Wine Ewer c.1895

  Silver-plate highly stylized classical ewer with various etched and applied floral details and an elegantly modeled double arch handle form

  Marks: Heraldic Coat-of-Arms

  H: 11″ x W: 8″ x D: 5″

  This is a Rococo Revival inspired wine ewer that shows the design transition of the last quarter of the 19th Century and leading up to the curvaceous designs of the Art Nouveau Era. The classical form of this ewer has an ancient precedent as well.

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  Georges Hugnet, “Tout beau mon Coeur” 1952

  GEORGES HUGNET (1906-1974) France

  “Tout beau mon Coeur” 1952

  Four full-page color lithographs.

  Limited edition of 50/50.

  Signed: Georges Hugnet

  Published by Pierre Seghers, Paris 1952.

   

  Dimensions:

  Book: H: 7 3/8” x W: 4 3/8”

  Custom leather box: H: 10 1/16” x W: 6 1/8” x D: 1 ¼”

  Custom silk slipcase: H: 10 7/8” x W: 6 1/2” D: 2 ½”

  Well-known as a writer, critic, collage artist, friend to the Dada and Surrealist movements and bookbinder, Hugnet wrote and illustrated many books, though rarely in the lithographic medium. This is a reissue of his poems first published in 1946, illustrated with his own lithographs.