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Faience Saucer "Gui" Lachenal

AE1054/39

Faience saucer from the "Mistletoe" (fr:Gui) set created by Edmond Lachenal (1855-1955) and produced by the French Manufacture Keller et Guérin (Lunéville) 1900-1914. Light green and purple background decorated with mistletoe branches. Gold rim.

Marked beneath in blue letters : Les annales politiques / K.G. / E. Lachenal.

Each piece is hand-decorated and is unique.

Product Details

Diameter
15 cm
Designer
Edmond Lachenal
Period
1900-1914
Origin
France
Style
Art Nouveau / Modern Style
Materials
Faience
Collection
Gui / Mistletoe

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Set created in 1900 by the french magazine Les annales politiques et littéraires, for its readers against subscription. Designed by the ceramist Edmond Lachenal (1855-1955) and produced by the French Lunéville Manufacture Keller et Guérin. Alongside the faience set, a glass set by the French Daum Manufacture (Nancy) was also created.

Each piece is colored thanks to an adjustable sprayer with separate color compartments making each piece unique. The very precise design is obtained by using a tin foil stencil.

 The production stopped in 1914 after the Lunéville Manufacture burning that destroyed stencils. Since the Rispal donation in 2005, the French musée d'Orsay owned several pieces of that "Mistletoe" set.

Bibliography :

Philippe Thiébaut, Olivier Gabet, Emmanuelle Héran... (et al.), Un ensemble art nouveau : la donation Rispal, cat. expo., Paris, musée d'Orsay (21 novembre 2006 au 28 janvier 2007), Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Flammarion, 2006