Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Wine
Online-Only Auction, 27 August - 7 September 2020
Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 8 000 - 10 000
About this Item
Nancy & Saint-Clément, France
Four Emile Gallé à Nancy St Clément blue and white two-handled baskets, 19th century
oval, each with two pierced cartouches centred by a medallion painted with the thistle of Lorraine below birds in flight flanked by two scrolling foliate flower-filled towers interspersed with rectangular vacant cartouches and pierced interlocking scrollwork incorporating a pair of scroll handles, shaped apron, on four outswept tapering square-section feet, chips, oneprinted Gallé à Nancy in underglaze-blue, the other three with Gallé Nancy and St Clément, the largest 26cm wide over handles
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Provenance
De Goede Hoop Estate, Noordhoek, Cape Town