JEAN DUNAND | VASE

Collection of Félix Marcilhac, Paris

Collection of Alain Lesieutre, Paris

Collection of Tina and Michael Chow, New York

Delorenzo Gallery, New York, 1988

Gabriel Henriot, "Jean Dunand," Mobilier et Décoration, February 1926, p. 36 (for the present lot illustrated)

Yvanhoe Rambosson, “La Ferronnerie d’Art,” Les Echos d’Art, February 1930, p. 7 (for the present lot illustrated)

François Baudot, “Chez Tina Chow: L’Esprit Art Déco," Elle Décoration, September 1988, p. 130 (for the present lot illustrated)

Félix Marcilhac, Jean Dunand: His Life and Works, London, 1991, p. 311, no. 1044 (for the present lot illustrated)

Known for his work in lacquered metal, the present lot is a rare work by Jean Dunand executed in lacquered ceramic, a testament to the artist’s versatility and mastery of the lacquered technique. Monumental in scale and decorated with finely composed eggshell fragments with red and gilt lacquered details, the present vase holds an exceptional place within Dunand’s oeuvre. A photograph of the vase was prominently featured in the February 1926 edition of Mobilier et Décoration, which included a comprehensive article on Dunand. The writer Emile Sedeyn, an eminent art critic, emphasized the importance of Dunand’s eggshell pieces and put it in relation with Dunand’s stylistic evolution towards the mid-1920s. Sedeyn underlined the artist’s new predilection for systematic geometry, stylized abstraction and the addition of colorful inclusions achieved through the use of various lacquers and eggshell, all of which are masterfully represented here.