Lot n° 59
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1000 - 2000
EUR
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: 3 500EUR
Edmond LACHENAL (1855-1930) & KELLER & GUERIN LUNEVILLE - Lot 59
Edmond LACHENAL (1855-1930) & KELLER & GUERIN LUNEVILLE
"Mistletoe", model created in 1900.
Table service in white earthenware with decoration in light relief, enamelled polychrome in the natural and enhanced with gilding of one hundred and thirty-five pieces, consisting of fifty-three dinner plates, seven soup plates, thirty-two dessert plates, two plates of presentation on pedestal, four large plates, one fixed tureen, two soup tureens, one vegetable dish, three fruit cups, two large oval dishes, three smaller oval dishes, one teapot, one sugar bowl, one milk jug, ten coffee cups and twelve saucers (small chip on one fruit cup, handle of the teapot glued back, chips)
Signed with both names on each piece, titled les annales politi(ques) et lit(téraires) and located Lunéville.
Height 20 cm (teapot) 15.5 cm (fruit bowl) 21 cm (tureen)
History :
Service created at the request of Mrs. Adolphe Sarcey-Brisson, for the Parisian magazine Les Annales politiques et littéraires, stopped in 1914 following the fire of the Keller & Guérin factory.
The Musée d'Orsay has pieces of this service in its collections, donated by Mrs Antonin Rispal in 2005.
Bibliography:
- Philippe Thiébaut, "Service "Gui": Verseuse, tasse et soucoupe", 48/14 La revue du Musée d'Orsay, n°15, autumn 2002, variants of our models reproduced p. 38.
- Collective, Un ensemble Art Nouveau: la donation Rispal, Musée d'Orsay & Flammarion, Paris, 2006, teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl and cups referenced under n°119 and reproduced pp. 166-167.
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