Property from an Important Private Collection

“Magnolia” table lamp circa 1904

Opalescent blown glass, patinated bronze. 23 5/8 x 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (60 x 21.6 x 16.5 cm)

Shade engraved DAUM/NANCY and with Cross of Lorraine, base incised L Majorelle/Nancy

Estimate

$30,000-50,000

Provenance

Macklowe Gallery Ltd., New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004

Literature

Janine Bloch-Derman, L’Art du Verre en France, 1860-1914, Lausanne, 1974, p. 138 for a similar example

Noël Daum, Daum: Mastery of Glass, Lausanne, 1980, p. 147

Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau Design, New York, 1991, pp. 146, 215

Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salon 18951914, Volume V: Objets d’Art & Metalware, Woodbridge, 1999, p. 396 Masterpieces of Art Nouveau Furniture: The Majorelle Catalogue ca. 1910, New York, 2002, pl. 32

Julius Hoffmann Jr., The Modern Style, 18991905: Art Nouveau, 2006, Bonn, p. 221 Roselyne Bouvier, Majorelle: Un Art de Vivre Modern, Paris, 2009, p. 99

Property from an Important Private Collection

Pair of rare sellettes circa 1900

Fruitwood, fruitwood-veneered wood. Each: 45 1/4 x 13 1/2 x 13 in. (114.9 x 34.3 x 33 cm)

Estimate $6,000-8,000

Raymond Toupenet, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2002

Literature

Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau Design, New York, 1991, p. 31 for the occasional table version

Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salon 18951914, Volume III: Furniture, Woodbridge, 1996, p. 391 for the occasional table version