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Lot Essay
cf. A. Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Suffolk, 1999, pp.133-134 for examples of Brandts metalwork mounts for Sévres in the 1904 exhibition. J. Kahr, Edgar Brandt, New York, 1999, p. 30 for an example of this vase illustrated in L'Art Décoratif in 1904.
By the youthful age of 20, Edgar Brandt was establishing himself as a innovative metalwork designer producing many works inspired by the popular Art Nouveau aesthetic. L'Art Décoratif featured the here offered vase along with similar mounted vases in their 1904 issue. By this time, Brandt was producing wrought and chased mounts for La Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres and exhibited these vases at the Salon d'Automne the same year. Perhaps the relative scarcity of these vases is due in part to the unenthusiastic response published by François Monod writing in Art et Décoration in November 1905, "Agreeable and elegant as these mounts are, they really do not have any relationship with the delicate, brilliant and fragile material that they support, and Mr. Brandt should really concentrate on reserving mounts of this type to his larger, more simple and deeply colored vases."
By the youthful age of 20, Edgar Brandt was establishing himself as a innovative metalwork designer producing many works inspired by the popular Art Nouveau aesthetic. L'Art Décoratif featured the here offered vase along with similar mounted vases in their 1904 issue. By this time, Brandt was producing wrought and chased mounts for La Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres and exhibited these vases at the Salon d'Automne the same year. Perhaps the relative scarcity of these vases is due in part to the unenthusiastic response published by François Monod writing in Art et Décoration in November 1905, "Agreeable and elegant as these mounts are, they really do not have any relationship with the delicate, brilliant and fragile material that they support, and Mr. Brandt should really concentrate on reserving mounts of this type to his larger, more simple and deeply colored vases."