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Lot 51 - Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres Two Rapin n° 6 sconces in translucent new hard paste porcelain, 1921 and 1929, ribbed base, top decorated with a frieze with engraved medallion of Rapin and Gauvenet. Marked: black stamp S 1921 DN for pâte dure nouvelle and red stamp decorated in Sèvres 1921. Marked: black cachet "à la rose" letter date b. The 1921 sconce: Height: 31.5 cm - Width: 23.6 cm - Depth 11.9 cm The 1929 sconce: Height: 31.1 cm - Width: 23.4 cm - Depth: 11.7 cm Thanks to its constituents - kaolin, feldspar and quartz - porcelain, when fine, becomes translucent. This property was used as early as the 18th century by the Sèvres manufactory, which produced "garde-vues", lighting fixtures with translucent walls. From 1827 onwards, Sèvres produced lithophanies, small porcelain pictures in which intaglio engravings create a play of light and shadow. From 1925 to 1930, designer Henri Rapin and sculptor Jean-Baptiste Gauvenet created over thirty models and decorations for porcelain lighting fixtures based on the lithophanie principle. The success of their "salon de lumière", presented at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, led to the prestigious commission of six large lighting vases, designed by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann for the Île-de-France liner inaugurated in 1927. Henri Rapin is a French illustrator, painter and decorator. He was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme and artistic advisor at the Manufacture de Sèvres from 1920 to 1934, where he invented new forms. Rapin was involved in the creation of some fifteen works in the collections of the Mobilier National (ceramics, lighting, clocks, screens, seats). For the majority of these, he collaborated with other artists, notably Jean Veber, Odilon Redon, Marcel Prunier and Josep Jardi Guardiola, also represented in the Mobilier National collections.

Estim. 4 000 - 6 000 EUR

Lot 69 - Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres Bisque figure of the singing dancer no. 2 from Le Jeu de l'écharpe by Agathon Léonard, 1901. Engraved under the base: cachet de Sèvres, V. 01-3 for March 1901 and n° 2. First size. Height: 46 cm In 1897, Alexandre Sandier (1843-1916), the new artistic director of the Manufacture de Sèvres, noticed at an exhibition the models of a decorative project intended to adorn a dance foyer. The artist Léonard Agathon Van Weydeveldt, known as Agathon Léonard (1841-1923) was then invited to adapt these figures of dancers to a table decoration project, especially in cookie porcelain. The set comprises fifteen statuettes: eleven dancers, two musicians and two torchbearers. It was exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, where it was acclaimed by critics and the public alike, and awarded a gold medal. These graceful, sinuous statuettes were a masterful spatial expression of the Art Nouveau spirit so dear to Alexandre Sandier. They were a great commercial success. Agathon Léonard and the artisans at Sèvres combined the classical neo-Greek aesthetic inspired by the ancient figures of the Tanagra with the serpentine choreography of the American dancer Loïe Fuller (1869-1928), who had been a sensation in Paris since 1893. The development of a new hard porcelain paste enabled the innovative rhythm and choreography of this pioneer of modern dance to be translated into the material. Between 1901 and 1930, 89 examples of our cookie were produced, all in varying numbers depending on their success. Many figures were sold individually or in small groups, but very few were sold as complete sets. The index finger of the high hand has been restored.

Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR