Taxile Doat & l'Escalier de Cristal

porcelaine émaillée dans les tons vert et rose, de forme gourde, monture en bronze doré à décor de feuillage sur une base circulaire

Jacques Kugel
Vente Maîtres Couturier et Nicolay, Paris vers 1980, couverture du catalogue

Yvonne Brunhammer et al., Art Nouveau Belgium/France, catalogue d'exposition, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston et The Art Institute, Chicago, 1976, p. 200, n. 295 pour un vase similaire

Très bon état general. La porcelaine en très bon etat. La monture en bronze doré avec quelques rares petites traces d'oxydation, visible au catalogue, dans le feuillage et sur la base. Overall in very good condition. The porcelain vase with a few very small and minor glaze flecks and abrasions to the outermost extremities, including one small surface fleck 1/8 inch in diameter, approximately ½ inch below the top rim. The gilt bronze mount with light surface wear, discolorations and a few traces of surface oxidations consistent with age.
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