Neo-Greek Style Cup by Ferdinand Barbedienne and Louis-Constant Sévin

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Neo-Greek Style Cup by Ferdinand Barbedienne and Louis-Constant Sévin

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Algerian onyx-marble Etruscan cup, gilt bronze with champlevé enamels decorations in the style of Byzantine arabesques drawn in the Greek and Roman manuscripts. Piedouche cup laid on a square base. Decorated with ancient motive, chased gilt bronze, with two handles representing bearded masks. Signed by manufacturer, editor and founder F.BARBEDIENNE and attributed to ornemanist and drawer Louis-Constant Sévin. This cup was created by the Maison Barbedienne and first exhibited during the 1862 London World's Fair. It was awarded with three medals for Excellence, for its innovating "cloisonné" technique in enameling art objects. About the artist Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892), founder, manufacturer and editor. Louis-Constant Sévin (Born in Versailles 1821 - Died in Neuilly-sur-Seine 1888) ornemanist, drawer and sculptor. The Maison Barbedienne is one of the best and this Industrial is characteristic of the union between art and industry in the history of decorative arts of the second half of the 19th century. Ferdinand Barbedienne was born in St-Martin-de-Fresnay (Calvados) in 1810 and died in Paris in 1892. In 1839 he founded his Maison where he made bronze copies of museum masterpieces. His editing process served a lot of his contemporary sculptors. He also editied a lot of furnishing bronzes in collaboration with some of the greatest ornemanists of the time, like Louis-Constant Sévin. Close collaboration between artists and manufacturer always gives birth to a high quality production because they seek the better use of progress in technical researches and a better use of machines. It is beauty emerging from technique. Thanks to their collaborations with artists, several manufacture, not only raised their level of production, but also gave Paris the title of undisputed captial of luxury industries. For almost thirty years, sculptor Louis-Constant Sévin was in charge of the furnishing bronzes production for the Maison Barbedienne. Master ornemanist, he designed some wonderful and varied works for Barbedienne. About the context Enamel From the London 1851 and then Paris 1855 World Fairs, enamel, in its wide range of techniques and polychrom effects, was brought back to artistic life and knew, under the French Second Empire a rehabilitation in Parisian decorative arts. It then became a field of study for ornemanists and many artists. Onyx-Marble Report of International Jury Commission in the 1862 London World Fair catalog, French Section N° 2871 "Onyx is the only Fine hardstone, we dare say precious, which may be used to any degree by modern industry, without considering its price, which conforms best to the desires of the artist and which can be used most harmoniously with bronze. It is like enamel to the play of light and crystal and mirrors. The master mirror markers of Florence and Venice do not produce work with a superior effect to the bevelled mirror surrounded by its large oval frame covered with gold, which is shown by the Company.".

Creator:
Ferdinand Barbedienne (Manufacturer)
Attributed to:
Louis-Constant Sevin (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 12.21 in (31 cm)Width: 13.39 in (34 cm)Depth: 8.67 in (22 cm)
Style:
Classical Greek (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Bronze,Onyx,Champlevé
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
1860-1869
Date of Manufacture:
1865
Condition:
No repairs, original gilding.
Seller Location:
Marseille, FR
Reference Number:
Seller: Coupe-etrusque-Barbedienne011stDibs: LU4751218085291

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Ferdinand Barbedienne

Founded by one-time Parisian wallpaper dealer Ferdinand Barbedienne and engineer Achille Collas, one of the most revered foundries in 19th-century France began with the invention of a revolutionary 1830s-era device that could produce proportional reproductions — large or small — of sculptures. Collas’s machine, which yielded miniature likenesses of antiquities for the interiors of homes the world over, was pivotal to the success of the F. Barbedienne Foundry. The successful firm earned prestigious awards and critical acclaim and created exquisite bronze candleholders, clocks and lamps for a range of wealthy and prominent clients.

The duo first launched their company under the name Société Collas et Barbedienne, and early on, they optimized chemical processes for pigmenting and patinating their bronze statuettes. After Collas died in 1859, Barbedienne forged on alone, and the company’s name changed to simply F. Barbedienne.

Barbedienne employed more than 300 workers at that point, and the Maison created a range of furnishings and decorative objects that featured the integration of marble and ormolu accents. However, with the onset of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the foundry was forced to retrofit its molds, and the production of cannons replaced sculptures, furniture and vases.

When Ferdinand Barbedienne passed away in 1891, his nephew and heir, Gustave Leblanc, took over as president, changing the name to Leblanc-Barbedienne. Leblanc expanded production into Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, carrying on the company's legacy with monumental sculptures, and models and securing production rights for famous statues. Paul-Alexandre Dumas, an Art Nouveau maker and student of Louis Majorelle, succeeded Leblanc until the company's closing in 1952.

Barbedienne pieces had been exhibited regularly in the 19th century and were especially prevalent at Europe’s international expositions and world’s fairs, where they received numerous prizes. Today, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris holds dozens of Barbedienne works in its collection, including intricate mirrors, vases and cups created by Louis-Constant Sévin at the foundry. For more than two decades, Sévin created lamps, boxes and more at Maison Barbedienne. Working alongside award-winning chaser Désiré Attarge, Sévin designed Napoleon III-era works that greatly appealed to European nobility.

Other notable artists who collaborated with Barbedienne included Eugene Aizelin, Emmanuel Fremiet, Antonin Mercié, Emile Guillemin, Edouard Lievre, Ferdinand Levillain and Auguste Rodin.

On 1stDibs, find a collection of antique Ferdinand Barbedienne decorative objects, lighting and more.