Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Live Auction, 7 October 2019
Ceramics, Silver, Glass and Furniture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 12 000 - 15 000
About this Item
Nancy & Saint-Clément, France
Four Emile Gallé à Nancy St Clément blue and white two-handled baskets, 19th century
oval, each with two pierced cartouches centred by a medallion painted with the thistle of Lorraine below birds in flight flanked by two scrolling foliate flower-filled towers interspersed with rectangular vacant cartouches and pierced interlocking scrollwork incorporating a pair of scroll handles, shaped apron, on four outswept tapering square-section feet, chips, oneprinted Gallé à Nancy in underglaze-blue, the other three with Gallé Nancy and St Clément, the largest 26cm wide over handles
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Provenance
De Goede Hoop Estate, Noordhoek, Cape Town