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A French Art Nouveau pâte-de-verre “Médallions Fleurs” vase by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau. Pictired in Les Pâtes de Verre: G. Argy-Rousseau, Catalogue Raisonné, by Janine Bloch-Dermant, Paris, 1990, pp. 68 and 206.
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Artist: Argy-Rousseau
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| Signed: G. Argy-Rousseau and France |
| Circa: 1900 |
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A French Art Deco pâte-de-verre “Fleurs de Pêcher” vase, by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau featuring peach blossoms on a purple and cream mottled ground. Pictured in: G.Argy-Rousseau: Les Pâtes de Verres, catalogue raisonné by Janine Bloch-Dermant (Paris: Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1990), page 181, cat. no. 20.04.
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A French Art Deco glass pâte-de-verre vase, “Le Jardin des Hespérides (Garden of the Hesperides),” by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, depicting three women in various positions picking apples from a tree. Pictured in: G. Argy-Rousseau: Les Pâtes de Verres, catalogue raisonné by Janine Bloch-Dermant (Paris: Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1990), pages 72-73 & 208, cat. no. 26.01; color pictures in: G. Argy-Rousseau: Glassware as Art by Janine Bloch-Dermant, New York, Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1991, pages 72-73. Bloch-Dermant describes this vase as “a hymn to nature,” and “a masterpiece... outside of time.” She adds that it is “a reference to Greece”, from which Argy-Rousseau “inherited his feeling for nature.” Bloch-Dermant cites Attic vases of the fifth century B.C., or the tragicomic theme of Greek masks as influences. (G. Argy-Rousseau: Glassware as Art by Janine Bloch-Dermant, New York, Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1991, pages 35, 41, 66)
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Artist: Argy-Rousseau
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| Signed: G. Argy-Rousseau, France |
| Circa: 1926 |
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A French Art Deco glass pâte-de-verre “Chardon” vase by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, featuring a thistle motif executed in low relief against a richly colored ground in variegated tones of mauve and purple. Pictured in: G. Argy-Rousseau: Les Pâtes de Verres, catalogue raisonné by Janine Bloch-Dermant (Paris: Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1990), page 178, cat. no. 15.03.
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A French Art Deco glass pâte-de-verre vase, “Fleurs de Pêcher,” by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, featuring pink and peach blossoms on a translucent ground. Pictured in: G.Argy-Rousseau: Les Pâtes de Verres, catalogue raisonné by Janine Bloch-Dermant (Paris: Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1990), page 181, cat. no. 20.04.
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Artist: Argy-Rousseau
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| Signed: “22757” and "G. Argy-Rousseau" |
| Circa: 1920 |
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A French Art Deco pâte-de-verre vase by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, titled “Lions”. The vase depicts blue lions surrounded by abstract blue and aqua swirls against a white ground. Pictured in: G.Argy-Rousseau: Les Pâtes de Verres, catalogue raisonné by Janine Bloch-Dermant (Paris: Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1990), page 209, cat. no. 26.08; color picture in: G. Argy-Rousseau: Glassware as Art by Janine Bloch-Dermant, New York, Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1991, page 78. The lions motif “was inspired by an Assyrian relief of the king Assurbanipal hunting lions at Ninevah. Roaring, aggressive and bounding, they have become a conventional symbol of the animal....” (G. Argy-Rousseau: Glassware as Art by Janine Bloch-Dermant, New York, Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1991, page 68)
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A French Art Deco pâte-de-verre vase, titled “Primevères” (Primroses) by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau featuring purple and red organic organic decoration in relief agains a multi-colored ground. The vase is further decorated with a purple art deco ornamental upper border. Pictured in: G.Argy-Rousseau: Les Pâtes de Verres, catalogue raisonné by Janine Bloch-Dermant (Paris: Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1990), page 196, cat. no. 24.02.
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A French Art Deco pate-de-verre vase, by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, featuring purple “Crysanthèmes” ("Chrysanthemums") with white centers atop a colorless background. Pictured in: G.Argy-Rousseau: Les Pâtes de Verres, catalogue raisonné by Janine Bloch-Dermant (Paris: Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1990), page 180, cat. no. 19.01.
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