Lucien BONVALLET / CARDEILHAC - Lot 133

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Lucien BONVALLET / CARDEILHAC - Lot 133
Lucien BONVALLET / CARDEILHAC Large silver coffee pot ART NOUVEAU period 1900 with decoration of columbines. In anticipation of the Paris Exhibition of 1900, Armand-Edouard CARDEILHAC goldsmith of reputation called upon the designer Lucien BONVALLET to draw several pieces of goldsmithery of which among others a coffee pot, a tea fountain and a small chocolate pot declined under various vegetable reasons of which the thistles, mistletoe, clovers, Ombellifères and columbines (cf specimen presented) This collaboration lasted between 1894 and 1899. These pieces were subsequently exhibited at a retrospective devoted to Lucien Bonvallet in January 1913 at the Pavillon de Marsan at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. Hallmarks minerve 1st title (.950) and hallmark of the master goldsmith: Armand-Edouard CARDEILHAC (" EC " a crescent below and a crowned cross of honor). Height : 21 cm. Weight : 799,2 grams. A copy of the small chocolate box is in the collections of the Museum " Minneapolis Institute of Art " (offered to the Museum by the Norwest Bank Minnesota). The tea fountain is in the Musée d'Orsay (acquired in 1994) under the Inventory N° OAO 1285 Bibliography : -Art et Décoration December 1900 page 163 -Maurice Rheims , L'Objet 1900 Arts et métiers graphiques , Paris 1963 page 96 illustration N°58 -L'Argenterie Art Nouveau et Art Deco de Annelies Krebel-Aalberse aux Editions de l'amateur , Paris 1990 illustration page 79 N° 55 -Henri BOUILHET " Exposition Universelle de 1900/ Rapport du Jury Orfèvrerie Paris " Imprimerie Nationales 1902 pages 33 and 133 . -L'Art français moderne , January 1916 page 30 -Exhibition Lucien Bonvallet (coppers, silverware, tapestries, embroideries, drawings, models, models) Museum of Decorative Arts of 1913 -From Impressionism to Art Nouveau, acquisitions of the Orsay Museum, Paris, 1996-97 -Alcouff Daniel / Bascou Marc / Dion-Tenebaum Anne " Une datation récente: un important ensemble d'Orfèvrerie des XIX et XX Siecles " Reunion des Musées nationaux 1996 pages 84-85 .
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