Important Design
Important Design
Property from the Private Collection of Lloyd and Barbara Macklowe
Auction Closed
December 12, 09:10 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Private Collection of Lloyd and Barbara Macklowe
CAMILLE NAUDOT
COUPE
1902
enameled porcelain
marked and numbered C Naudot 41902 and with artist’s monogram CN
7 in. (17.7 cm) high
5¾ in. (17.1 cm) diameter
Oger-Blanchet, Paris, October 26, 2012, Lot 209
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Born the son of a porcelain merchant, Camille Naudot grew up surrounded by examples of fine ceramics. Naudot succeeded in the family business in 1889 and began to take courses at l'École de Sèvres in the production of porcelain. Naudot was greatly influenced by the level of detail and technical expertise of the works created by Sèvres for the royal courts of Versailles before the French revolution, and he began experimenting with soft-paste porcelain to achieve the level of detail seen in these eighteenth-century pieces. As seen in the present lot, Naudot specialized in the technique of Chinese “rice grain” porcelain known for its difficulty and rarity. To create a piece like this Coupe, soft-paste porcelain is carefully pierced before firing. If the piece survived the firing, then the holes in the enamel work were filled with glass-like translucent enamels and gilt work and re-fired, leading to a subtle creation with shimmering enamelwork. The delicacy of the paper-thin porcelain body that Naudot was able to achieve is unparalleled. On this present lot, Naudot painted delicate sprigs of Japanese bleeding-heart flowers across the body of the piece, complemented by skillfully enameled iridescent butterflies. For his porcelain, Naudot won the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, as well as the Grand Prix at the St. Petersburg Exhibitions in 1901 and London in 1908. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Château Musée, the Musée d'Orsay and the Walters Art Museum.