A FRENCH STONEWARE DOUBLE-HEADED ELEPHANT VASE BY PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT WITH JEAN COULON
26.01.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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37500GBP £ 37 500
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ID 696733
Lot 20 | A FRENCH STONEWARE DOUBLE-HEADED ELEPHANT VASE BY PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT WITH JEAN COULON
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 40 000
CIRCA 1893-1894, IMPRESSED 'POMEGRANATE' MARK
Modelled as a pair of addorsed elephant heads, their trunks entwined around the waisted lower section, on a circular foot, decorated with dark red, blue, green, turquoise and light brown flambé glazes
10 5⁄8 in. (27 cm.) high; 20 in. (50.8 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Maitres Jean Marie & Yann Le Mouel, Drouot Richelieu, Paris, 4 December 2001, lot 41.
Literature
Revue des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1894-95, p. 200.
Kunst und Handwerk, Munich, 1897-98, p. 311.
Richard Borrmann, Moderne Keramik, Liepzig, 1902, p. 26, pl. 17.
Bernd Hakenjos and Ekkart Klinge, Europäische Keramik des Jugendstils, Dusseldorf (Hetjens-Museum), 1974, p. 30, no. 32.
H. Makus et al., Adrien Dalpayrat, Französische Jugendstil-Keramik/Céramique française de l'Art Nouveau, Stuttgart, 1998, illustrated p. 27 and p. 136, no. 73.
A. Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Volume IV: Ceramics and Glass, Suffolk, 1998, p.100.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie George Petit, 'Revue des Arts Décoratifs', December 1894.
Special notice
These lots have been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Sale room notice
Please note that the date should read circa 1893-1894 and not as stated in the printed catalogue.
| Artist: | Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat (1844 - 1910) |
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| Applied technique: | Pottery |
| Medium: | Ceramic, Stoneware |
| Art style: | Art Nouveau |
| Auction house category: | Vases and vessels |
| Artist: | Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat (1844 - 1910) |
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| Applied technique: | Pottery |
| Medium: | Ceramic, Stoneware |
| Art style: | Art Nouveau |
| Auction house category: | Vases and vessels |
| Address of auction |
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