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  Paul Follot for La Maison Moderne, Art Nouveau waist clasp, silver and chrysoprase, signed c. 1900

  PAUL FOLLOT Paris, France

  LA MAISON MODERNE Paris, France

  Art Nouveau waist clasp c.1900

  Gilt silver with chased whiplash design set with 19 cabochons of chrysoprase.

  Marks: P. FOLLOT, French swan mark (silver standard mark for small objects)

  Illustrated: Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXe Siecle (Paris: Edition de la Moderne) p. 20, plate 5, n. 53-11

  PAUL FOLLOT (1877-1941) French

  In the Late 1890’s, Follot studied under graphic designer Eugène Grasset at the Ecole Normale d’Enseignement du Dessin in Paris and later succeeded Grasset in that post. From 1901 to 1904, he designed metalwork, jewelry and textiles for La Maison Moderne, art critic Julius Meier-Graefe’s gallery in Paris. He became director of the interior design studio Pomone of the Paris department store Le Bon Marché in 1923, introducing the Art Deco style into many middle-class home.

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  Scandinavian Art Nouveau “Wisteria” bronze photo frame c.1910

  SCANDINAVIAN ART NOUVEAU

  “Wisteria” bronze photo frame  c.1910

  Elaborately detailed, acid etched and multi-patinated bronze table top photo frame with gilt details of a cascade of wisteria blossoms, leaves and vines.

  Overall Frame: H: 12” x W: 7 ½”
  Oval photo window opening H: 5 ½” x W: 4”

  Price: $3,650

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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.

  H: 3 1/4″ x W: 6 3/4″

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  Christian Thomsen / RC Denmark Rare “Frog and Dragonfly” Art Nouveau vase 1901

  CHRISTIAN THOMSEN (1860-1921) Denmark
  ROYAL COPENHAGEN

  “Frog and Dragonfly” vase 1901

  Glazed porcelain with a frog in 3-D sculptural relief looking at a dragonfly seated on a calla lily leaf looking up at the blossom.

  Form number 280

  Marks: ROYAL COPENHAGEN, CROWN, 465/250, 3 wavy lines (Royal Copenhagen) insignia, inscribed A. 250

  For more information see: Musterbuch KPF, um 1930, Illustration number 204; Porzellan, Kunst und Design 1889 bis 1939, vom Jugendstil zum Funktionalismus (Berlin: Bröhan-Museum, 1993) p. 467, ill. 435; Sammlung Bröhan: Kunsthandwerk 2, Metall, Porzellan (Berlin: Bröhan Museum, 1977), pp. 222-285.

  H: 9″ x Dia: 3 1/2″

  Christian Thomsen was employed at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory (Royal Copenhagen) in 1898, and was employed there until his death in 1921. Thomsen is said to have had a huge impact on Royal Copenhagen’s success throughout the 20th century. A large part of the recognition by the Royal Porcelain Factory has enjoyed over the years, they can thank Christian Thomsen for. He produced more than 100 different figurines, especially he had a fondness for agricultural characters, children figurines, figurines inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, fauns and trolls, and not least charming animals and bird figures.