Property from an Important Private Collection

69. Daum Frères and Louis Majorelle 1859-1926

“Nénuphar” table lamp circa 1903

Wheel-carved, overlaid, acid-etched and applied glass, patinated bronze.

27 5/8 in. (70.2 cm) high

Shade engraved DAUM/NANCY and with the Cross of Lorraine.

Estimate

$120,000-180,000

Provenance

Private collection

Christie’s, New York, “Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design,” June 5, 2007, lot 48

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Exposition de l’Alliance Provinciale des Industries d’Art. Ecole de Nancy: Catalogue Officiel Illustré, 1903, Paris, n.p. Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau Design, New York, 1991, pp. 139, 149, 215

Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, London, 2002, p. 292

Christophe Bardin, Daum 1878-1939: Une Industrie d’Art Lorraine, Metz, 2004, p. 303

Masterpieces of Art Nouveau Furniture: The Majorelle Catalogue ca. 1910, New York, 2002, pl. 92

Julius Hoffmann Jr., The Modern Style, 1899-1905: Art Nouveau, 2006, Bonn, pp. 197, 273

Roselyne Bouvier, Majorelle: Un Art de Vivre Moderne, Nancy, 2009, p. 143 for a similar example

The present lamp is the only known “Nénuphar” example to feature the application of mold-blown scarabs on the shade.