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  Clement Massier / French Art Nouveau “Bamboo and Flying Crane” Vase circa 1900

  CLÉMENT MASSIER  (1845-1917) France
  MASSIER ART POTTERY  Golfe Juan, France

  “Bamboo and flying crane” vase   c. 1900

  Earthenware tapering form with applied handles, hand painted with bamboo and flying cranes with gilt motives and details

  Marks: Clement Massier  Golfe  Juan (block impressed letters)

  For more information and other works by the Massier family see: Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe (Montreal, Quebec: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1995) p. 176, cat. 269; Jugendstil Art Nouveau, Floral and Functional Forms, Siegfried Wichmann (New York/Boston: Graphic Society/Little, Brown & Co., 1984) p. 45; Art Nouveau  Belgium France. Exh. cat. Yvonne Brunhammer et al. (Houston, TX: Institute for the the Arts, Rice University, 1976); La Céramique Art Nouveau, Edgar Pélichet, Michèle Duperrex (Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1976) p. 89

  H:  14 1/8” x D: 9 5/8”

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  Christopher Dresser / James Couper & Sons Aventurine blown glass “Clutha” pitcher c. 1895

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK

  JAMES COUPER & SONS Glasgow, Scotland

  “Clutha” pitcher c. 1895

  Aventurine blown glass with iridescent gold streaks and internal bubbles

  Illustrated: “Liberty & Co.” Yuletide Gifts catalogue, 1895, “Clutha” Glass; Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, exhib. cat. Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998) p. 72

  H: 8 1/2” x 6 1/2”