French Art Nouveau Covered Jar by Clerget

A French Art Nouveau gilt-bronze covered jar by Alexandre Clerget, featuring a decoration of three dancing maidens amidst flowers. Model exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900. Pictured in: Siot-Décauville, Fondeur Editeur: Bronzes & Objets d'art, p. 89 and in Dynamic Beauty: Sculpture of Art Nouveau Paris, by Macklowe Gallery, The Studley Press, 2011, p. 114.