拍品 277
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A massive pair of lustre glazed earthenware urns in wrought metal mounts

THE URNS BY EMILE MÜLLER, THE MOUNTS BY EDGAR BRANDT, CIRCA 1905/10

细节
A massive pair of lustre glazed earthenware urns in wrought metal mounts
The urns by Emile Müller, the mounts by Edgar Brandt, circa 1905/10
The fluted urns with flared necks moulded with formalised foliate design, scrolled leaf handles, one with a cluster of berries, decorated overall with lustrous red/turquoise glaze, each set in scrolled painted metal mounts terminating in scrolled and foliate feet
26 5/8in. (67.5cm.) high
Each urn with incised signature Emile Müller at the rim, the mounts stamped E. Brandt in elaborate script (2)

拍品专文

Emile Müller founded a small ceramics works at Ivry near Paris in 1854. Art the turn of the century the factory was particularly noted for its production of architectural elements and garden objects and statuary. Amongst the artists whose work was translated by the wroks were Philippe Wolfers, Eugène Grasset, Louis Chalon, Toulouse-Lautrec, Charpentier, Fix-Masseau and Gérome.