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Edmond Lachenal French Art Nouveau Green glazed pitcher / vase form c. 1900
EDMOND LACHENAL (1855-1930) Paris, France
Green glazed pitcher / vase form c. 1900
Marks: E LACHENAL (impressed and glazed in a rectangle on base)
For information on Edmond Lachenal see:”Edmond Lachenal”, Fritz Minkus, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk, IV (1901) pp.390-98; La Céramique Art Nouveau, Edgar Pelichet and Michèle Duperrex (Lausanne: Les Éditions du Grand-Pont, Switzerland, 1976) pp. 66,71,74,78,83,112,115; “l’Atelier Lachenal à la galerie Georges Petit “ in Les Echoes d’Art” (1933), p. Vll; Art Nouveau: Belgium & France, exh. cat. Yvonne Brunhammer et al. (Houston, TX: Institute for the the Arts, Rice University, 1976), p. 48; Le Japonisme (Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1988) cat no. 377, p. 321; Japonisme: the Japanese influence on western art in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Siegfried Wichmann (Parklane: New York, 1980) pp. 339, 349; cat. no. 920.
H: 9″ x W: 6 3/4″
Edmond Lachenal French Art Nouveau Green glazed pitcher / vase form c. 1900
ANTONIO PIÑEDA (1919-2009) Taxco, Mexico
Exhibition Pitcher c.1959-60
Handwrought sterling silver in an overall triangular form with a diamond opening and a double splayed form and contoured handle, 30 troy ounces total weight
Marks: Antonio Taxco (large crown mark) Sterling Silver, 930, Mexican Eagle silver standard mark
Exhibited at the Triennale di Milano, Italy, 1960
Provenance: Antonio Pineda, 1990
Illustrated: Triennale di Milano, Argentería di Antonio Pineda,
Exhibition Catalogue (Milan, 1960).
H: 6 5/8” x L: 9 ½” x D: 5 ¾”
LOUIS C. TIFFANY (1848-1933) USA
TIFFANY STUDIOS New York
Kettle-on-Stand c.1902
Silver on copper with carved teak wood handles and finial in an organic-form and hexagonal shaped kettle-on-stand with burner
Marks: Tiffany Studios, New York (on all three pieces)
Illustrated: The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Donald L. Stover (The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1981), p. 88, illus. 189 (description on p. 96); Tiffany at Auction, Alastair Duncan (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1981) p. 50, pl. 137.
A rare example of a subtle organic-form and hexagonal shaped kettle-on-stand emulating pooling water in a Japanese influenced design by Louis Comfort Tiffany and made by Tiffany Studios
H: 10 1/2″ x D: 8″ x W: 9″