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Beautiful cement doghouse in Rocaille style

Beautiful doghouse with half-timbered decoration and "rocaille" style, a rustic art very popular at the end of the 19th century. This doghouse was built in reinforced cement, imitating tree branches. André TEXIER Plate, mason in Normandy (France).

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Théodore DECK (ceramist), Eugène GLUCK (painter), Ornamental dish decorated with a bucolic scene with an escarpolette

This large dish, decorated with a bucolic scene, was created by Théodore Deck and painted by Eugène Gluck in 1866. Théodore Deck initially trained as a stove maker. When he set up on his own in Paris in 1858, he made stove linings and, building on his success, moved into ceramics. The studio produced a large number of dishes, sometimes in collaboration with well-known painters. He gradually perfected his technique and enjoyed great success at the many World’s Fairs he took part in. In 1878, he was made an Officer of the Légion d’Honneur. He ran the Sèvres factory between 1887 and his death in 1891. Like Deck, a native of the Haut-Rhin region, Eugène Gluck was both a painter and an illustrator. He worked with Théodore Deck from 1862. A member of the Société des artistes français, Gluck exhibited picturesque historical scenes in the vein of this décor at the Salon in Paris.

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BACCARAT, Pair of square vases with cherry blossoms and birds, circa 1880

The great transparency of the crystal highlights the fine gold enameled decoration executed on the surface of the vases. Their square shape is characteristic of the manufacture's production at that time. Founded under Louis XV, the French crystal factory Baccarat demonstrated its excellence at Universal Exhibitions throughout the 19th century. On the vases, two cherry trees in bloom respond to each other in axial symmetry. One is covered in leaves, while the other is only flowered. The very fine details of the decoration are executed in relief. The influence of Japonism is perceptible in the choice of iconography and in the execution of the decor. The Baccarat crystal factory, innovative in its early embrace of Japonism, created a free-standing bottle between 1880-1890 in blown crystal, kept at the Musée d'Orsay. Its enameled and gold-rimmed decorations on the transparent crystal are the result of work identical to that of this vase. Baccarat also designed a vase very close to ours in form and in the implementation of the technique, with a turtle decoration of eminently Far Eastern inspiration.