Important Design
Important Design
Bernard Laurent collection
Batracian Chimera
Live auction begins on:
May 20, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Jean Désiré Ringel d’Illzach
Batracian Chimera
1905
Glazed stoneware
Executed by Elchinger Manufacture
Signed Ringel d'Illzach and dated 1905 on the lower part of the back and indistinctly inscribed Elchinger et Fils, Soufflenheim on a side
65 x 40 x 30 cm ; 25 ½ x 15 ¾ x 12 in.
Bernard Laurent collection, Villefranche-sur-Mer
Thence by descent to the present owner
For a similar model:
Symbolism and the grotesque: the fantastical creatures of Carriès and Ringel d'Illzach, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Charles Janoray, New York, 2006, n.p.
Formes vivantes, exhibition catalogue, Manufacture de Sèvres museum, Paris, 9 november 2022 - 7 may 2023, p. 162
A similar model is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection (M.2006.98.2)
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