AQUARIUM IN THE JAPANESE STYLE

originating from the collection of Alice Tahl (Baltimore, 1851- Biarritz, 1913), known as ‘Madame de Lancey’, mistress of the banker Nissim de Camondo

Paris, circa 1880.
designed by Édouard Lièvre (1828-1886) and executed by Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892)

Chiselled, patinated and ‘vieux ton or’ gilded bronze; glass.

H. 157 cm. (62 in.); W. 76 cm. (30 in.); D. 60 cm. (23 in.).

MARK: F. BARBEDIENNE, incised on the edge of the top of the base.

PROVENANCE: collection of Alice Tahl (Baltimore, 1851- Biarritz, 1913), known as ‘Madame de Lancey’, mistress of the banker Nissim de Camondo, in her hôtel particulier located 23 rue Vernet, in the 8^tharrondissement à Paris; her auction in Paris, « Catalogue des objets d’art et de riche ameublement […] le tout appartenant à Madame de Lancey, Garnissant son Hôtel à Paris, et le Pavillon de La Du Barry, à Louveciennes», galerie Sedelmeyer, 4 rue de La Rochefoucauld, in the 9^th arrondissement, M^es Jules Plaçais and Georges Duchesne, December 10, 11, 12 and 13, 1890, lot n° 157.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: « Edouard Lièvre », Hors-Série de Connaissance des Arts, Paris, 2004, pp. 30-31, repr.; Roberto Polo, Roberto Polo, The Eye, A selection of masterpieces from the collections which he has formed, London, 2011, pp. 192-193.

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