Clement Massier / French Art Nouveau "Bamboo and Flying Crane" Vase circa 1900
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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
Archibald Knox / Liberty & Co. Tri-footed pewter vase with blue enamel c. 1902-05
ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933) UK
LIBERTY & CO. London
Tri-footed vase c.1902-05
Pewter with blue enamel
Marks: Liberty & Co., ENGLISH PEWTER, 0927
Model illustrated: Liberty’s 1875-1975, An Exhibition to mark the Firm’s Centenary (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1975) p. 76; The Liberty Style, introduction by Victor Arwas (NY: Rizzoli, 1979) cat. no. 36
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