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Auction No.089: Art Nouveau - Art Déco

Auction No.089, 20 and 21 April 2010

Art Nouveau - Art Déco
Hagenauer - Private Collection

Public viewing:
15. / 16. April: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
17. / 18. April: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
19. April: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

 

Pre Auction Report

The substantial and exquisite offer of glass items from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco eras will certainly draw again the interest of numerous collectors.

Among it, 35 Pâte de verre objects by Amalric Walter, outstanding, an impressive 'Bernard L’Hermite' tray with hermit crab (€ 9,000), a blue 'Lotte' bowl with a three-dimensional fish (€ 6,500) and a tray with chameleon (€ 6,500). A vase by Daum Frères, with cherries and a frieze of grasshoppers, of multi-layered glass, partly opalescent and vastly worked with the wheel, is on offer for an estimate of € 13,000. Also by Daum, a rectangular covered flacon, adorned with six applied beetles and cabochons, that is going to be called up for € 5,900; and a rare 'Edelweiss' vase, estimated at € 6,500, that was also manufactured there.

From a Berlin private collection stem some really decorative pieces by the Emile Gallé workshop. One of these, a 'Soufflé' vase with plums, from the 1920s in intensive blue and yellow glass, is estimated, due to its felicitous execution and colouring, at € 22,000. Likewise successfully managed, a large vase with daffodils in bloom, partially burnished, estimated at € 9,000.

A table light by Louis Comfort Tiffany comes with a written expertise by Alastair Duncan, New York. The light with leaded shade has a 'Dogwood' pattern and is estimated at € 15,000, one pecularity being the gilding of the lead, adequate to ist gilded bronze base.

Then there is a private collection of 17 exquisitely flawless plates, cups and vases of eggshell porcelain by the Rozenburg manufacture in The Hague. These thin-walled, featherweight vessels with colourful depictions of the Flora and Fauna certainly pertain to the most singular creations of the Art Nouveau era. Pecularly appealing is a rectangular, two-handled vase with bird of Paradise, estimated at € 8,000 and a Vase with two parrots among tulips for € 9,000.

Emile Gallé’s fayence, that he designed and made in the 1880s at the St. Clément workshop are masterpieces that lie stylisticly in the Historism era. They might display features of the Renaissance or the Baroque. Thus, a jar in the shape of a cockatoo is a most prominent example.

Besides a choice of numerous table lamps and ceiling lights also high-quality pieces of furniture are going to be auctioned off. A range of French smaller items of furniture from the Art Deco era have moderate estimates between € 400 and € 1,000. Most rare, a cabinet by Jacques Gruber of Nancy, made of mahogany, typically featuring a coloured glass plate (€ 16,000). At least as rare is a ‚Etagère au Libelulles’ by Emile Gallé, exquisitely adorned with marquetry of dragonflies, in the lower part even a carved example of this kind of insect (€ 20.000). Henry van de Velde fans will delight in a rare coatrack made of iron, estimated at € 12,000.