Louis Majorelle French Art Nouveau "Fiddleback Fern" bowl c. 1900
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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.
Jean Serriere Rare French Art Deco Dinanderie Bowl c. 1925
Jean Serrrière (1893-1968) France
A. Hebrard (closed 1937) Paris
Footed dinanderie bowl, circa 1925
Hand wrought copper with silver incrustations in a repeating triangular motif and contrasting black patination on a rich brown ground.
Marks: JS (artists monogram) A. Hebrard, Paris
For more information see: Art et Décoration Revue Mensuelle D’Art Moderne, Tome XLVII. (Paris: Librairie Centrale Des Beaux-Arts) p.217; Silver of a New Era: International Highlights of Precious Metalwork from 1880 to 1940, (Rotterdam: Museum Boymans van-Beuningen, 1992) p.68, cat.no. 61; La Dinanderie Française 1900-1950, Dominique Forest and Marie-Cécile Forest (Paris: Les Éditions de l’Amateur, 1995) p.231-233.
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