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A Rousseau enamelled glass vase circa 1884

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Description

  • engraved 'E. Rousseau, Paris'
  • height 30 cm, a small stress crack
mould-blown smokey-brown glass modelled and decorated in Japonist fashion with a carp jumping up from the waves, enamelled in shades of brown, grey, yellow red and blue

Literature

Cf. H. Ricke & E. Schmitt (ed.), Glas des Art Nouveau: die Sammlung Gerda Koepff, München/New York 1998, p. 27 for a contemporary photograph from Revue des arts décoratifs, showing a similar vase

Catalogue Note

A vase of this model was shown at the 1884 exhibition of the Union Centrale in Paris