Bernard Laurent collection
Louis Majorelle and Daum
Monnaie-du-pape lamp
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May 20, 06:11 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Louis Majorelle and Daum
Monnaie-du-pape lamp
Circa 1903
Double-layered glass
Acid-etched and hammered decoration, heat-formed collar
Patinated wrought iron mounting
Signed Daum ⱡ Nancy on each flower
Height : 67 cm ; 26 ⅜ in.
Bernard Laurent collection, Villefranche-sur-Mer
Thence by descent to the present owner
For a similar model :
L'Art Décoratif, Paris, January 1904
Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle, Master of Art Nouveau Design, London, 1991, p. 43 and 142
Roselyne Bouvier, Majorelle, Paris, 1991, p. 190
Michel Draguet, L'Art Nouveau Retrouvé à Travers Les Collections Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, Paris, 1999, p. 153
Collection du musée des beaux-arts de Nancy, Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 2000, the model referenced under n° 264, n.p.
A lamp of this model was presented by Louis Majorelle and the Daum brothers at the 1903 Exposition de l'École de Nancy in Paris, as well as at the 1910 Exposition Universelle in Brussels.
A same model is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy collection (inv. 99.7.1), Nancy.