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Jan & Joël MARTEL (1896-1966) & MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SÈVRES Seated cat, model created in 1925 Cookie proof (tiny chip). Manufacture stamp and monogrammed LM (modeler). Height: 33 cm History: this model was first presented at the at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs 1925 in Paris, in the chambre de jeune fille designed by by René Gabriel for the French Embassy. The Martel signed a publishing contract with Manufacture de Sèvres de Sèvres in July 1925, enabling the latter to produce the cookie, stoneware and white enameled porcelain. porcelain. Bibliography - Les oeuvres de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres de 1738 à 1932 - Tome II, La Sculpture moderne, Sèvres, 1932, model no. 1108, reproduced on pl. 46. - Collectif, Joël et Jan Martel - Sculpteurs 1896-1966, Gallimard/Electa, Paris, 1996, model numbered n°23 in the catalog essay of the sculpted work p. 186 and reproduced in a rosewood variant reproduced p. 127.
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Jan & Joël MARTEL (1896-1966) & MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SÈVRES Seated cat, model created in 1925 Cookie proof (tiny chip). Manufacture stamp and monogrammed LM (modeler). Height: 33 cm History: this model was first presented at the at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs 1925 in Paris, in the chambre de jeune fille designed by by René Gabriel for the French Embassy. The Martel signed a publishing contract with Manufacture de Sèvres de Sèvres in July 1925, enabling the latter to produce the cookie, stoneware and white enameled porcelain. porcelain. Bibliography - Les oeuvres de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres de 1738 à 1932 - Tome II, La Sculpture moderne, Sèvres, 1932, model no. 1108, reproduced on pl. 46. - Collectif, Joël et Jan Martel - Sculpteurs 1896-1966, Gallimard/Electa, Paris, 1996, model numbered n°23 in the catalog essay of the sculpted work p. 186 and reproduced in a rosewood variant reproduced p. 127.
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