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A RARE ART NOUVEAU GOLD VASE
Lot 13 PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN COLLECTION

A RARE ART NOUVEAU GOLD VASE

SIGNED BY EDMOND-HENRI BECKER AND AUCOC & CIE., PARIS, 1900-1905

Closed17 May 2011

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A RARE ART NOUVEAU GOLD VASE
SIGNED BY EDMOND-HENRI BECKER AND AUCOC & CIE., PARIS, 1900-1905
18K; of baluster form, the neck chased with waves and applied with frozen water at the rim, each side applied with the head of a Bacchic ram, each with a broken horn symbolizing the hollowness of Bacchic passions, flanked by applied grapevine and with ruffled cartouches in between, on a grey marble socle, the foot with engraved signatures E. BECKER Sc. and A. AUCOC Orf., also struck with French standard mark and small indistinct maker's mark
8 in. (20.5 cm.) high including base; 26 oz. (813.5 gr)

Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 November 1983, lot 164

Specialist note

Edmond-Henri Becker (b. 1871) was a prominent sculptor who designed for the leading jewelers of the art nouveau period, including Boucheron, Aucoc, Pierre Richard, and Maison Lépine. Becker designed and carved the models for several silver objects exhibited by Boucheron at the Paris Exposition of 1900. His Le Jour et La Nuit clock in silver-gilt and boxwood is in the Boucheron Collection, Paris, and is illustrated in Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons, 1895-1914, vol. V, p. 11. This vase is closely related to Becker's silver objects exhibited by La Société des Artistes Françaises in 1904 (see A. Duncan, op. cit., pp. 75-78). The present vase is a rare work by Becker in gold.