Lot n° 245
Estimation :
2000 - 4000
EUR
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Result
: 2 576EUR
Rare tripod pedestal table, the base in gilded... - Lot 245 - Coutau-Bégarie
Rare tripod pedestal table, the base in gilded cast iron with applied decoration of palmettes in patinated bronze, the cylindrical shaft supports a round tray decorated with a frieze of laurel leaves encircling an enamelled lava tray decorated with three young girls in a landscape, in a burgundy frame with a neo-Gothic frieze adorned with the arms of the alliance
The tray is attributed to Hachette et Cie.
H. :77,5 cm, D. : 39,5 cm
Around 1835.
Ferdinand-Henoseph Mortelècque, artist-craftsman known for his mastery in the manufacture of colours for porcelain and glass, perfected the technique of painting on lava. Thanks to the enamel white, "Mortelècque white", which he used to cover the lava plates, it was possible to produce paintings in vitrifiable colours on large surfaces, whose flatness was preserved during the firing process.
Between 1825 and 1827, Mortelècque succeeded in producing the first work painted on enamelled lava, a Head of an old man, from his kilns on the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin. Between 1832 and 1838, Mortelècque's business remained in this street, moving to different workshops. In 1824, the Bosson brothers, wine merchants, walnut trays and raw lava blocks, settled in Volvic, had a land and a warehouse located at 20, quai Saint-Sabin on the new Saint-Martin canal, near Mortelècque's workshop, facilitating the supply of lava blocks which were then cut in Paris. When Mortelècque died, his workshop was taken over by Dubois and Pierre Hachette, glass painters. The company is still located on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin. It has six furnaces and the volume of lava processed is 5,000 tons according to an exhibitor's report from the Hachette company at the 1844 Exhibition of French industrial products. Hachette was the only manufacturer to exhibit and mention its work on enamelled lava at this event.
In 1831, the architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff became associated with the Hachette et Cie company. He thus became the director of what was probably the first lava enamelling company. It was then located at 40, rue Coquenard in the 9th arrondissement, having probably been expropriated from the Faubourg-Saint-Martin due to the passage of the Northern railway. The six enamelled lava altar fronts made under the direction of Hittorff for the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette came from the Hachette workshops
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