JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 10 August 2021 - 10:00 AM start
An uncommon Sèvres French Art Nouveau pottery vase
Lot Details
with silver mounts by Victor Saglier. Retailed by Siegfried Bing, c. 1900. The high fired art pottery body with semi crystalline glaze. H.188mm. Note: A similar vase held in the V&A collection, London with note: Victor Saglier and his successors Saglier Frères (Eugène and André Saglier) were metalworkers in Paris who commissioned vases from ceramicists such as Alexandre Bigot and from artists working at the Sèvres factory. The Sèvres chemists' achievements in developing new porcelain and colours in the 1880s were closely followed by the development of crystalline glazes. The first successful experiments were made by Royal Copenhagen but Sèvres, which had made the initial discovery, quickly caught up and exhibited crystal glazes at Paris in 1900.
