Gazette Drouot logo print
Lot n° 10

Louis MAJORELLE (1859-1926) and DAUM in Nancy Table...

Result :
Not available
Estimate :
Subscribers only

Louis MAJORELLE (1859-1926) and DAUM in Nancy Table lamp model "Water lily" with base in ormolu ornamented with a base of three frogs in the round on a background of stylized leaves from which three leafy branches emerge of water lilies. Three-lobed glass corolla dish acid-etched and recut with leaf decoration of water lilies in shades of yellow-orange. Signed Daum on the cup and L. Majorelle on the foot. H. 69 cm. Similar models listed in : - Catalogue of the Ecole de Nancy à l'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, Pavilion de Marsan, Paris 1903. - Louis Majorelle by Alastair Duncan, Ed. Thames and Hudson, London 1991 page 134 - The Ecole de Nancy, 1889-1909, RMN 1999 page 331 - Daum 1878-1939 A Lorraine Art Industry by C. Bardin, Metz 2004 page 303 A model of this lamp appears in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay with a naturalist frame on which the frogs are absent. In 1890, Louis Majorelle opened a workshop in the city of Paris. dedicated to metal work, and the collaboration between the two houses Majorelle and Daum started in 1903 on the occasion of of the execution of this lamp.