Argy-Rousseau's near-unique ability to gracefully soften the starkness of Art Deco design without ever sacrificing the strength of the design is on...

This sculpture, "Lit from Within’', by Victorin Sabatier, features a gilded woman emerging from patinated bronze drapery. The cloth that covers her...

A French Art Deco Pate-de-verre Lamp by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau depicts two red tigers stalking their prey in a fan of purple grass. The pate-de-verr...

Famed American dancer and icon of the 1900s, Loïe Fuller, is featured performing her dance of veils in "Vestal Virgin,” a gilt bronze lighted sculp...

This stunning enamel, silvered metal, and gilt metal "Pavot" inkwell by Eugène Feuillâtre features peacock feather embellishments. The Inkwell lie...

This exquisite table lamp by Maurice Bouval, known as "Femme aux Nénuphars," showcases a nude nymph perched upon a water lily blossom illuminated b...

Agathon Leonard's Jeu de l’echarpe recalls the poses of the legendary eighteenth-century muse, Emma Hamilton. Beloved by society artists George Rom...

Redon’s Apparition is a depiction of the artist’s dream. As nineteenth-century artists explored their relationship with the natural world, Redon de...

By François-Raoul Larche, this French Art Nouveau gilt bronze lighted sculpture, entitled "Loïe Fuller," is the most famous of all bronzes to be ma...

This lighted gilded bronze sculpture by Antoine Bofill features a nude woman wrapped around the stem of a calla lily. The women’s feet connect to a...

This French Art Nouveau Glass Vase by Daum features ruby-toned handles and bees buzzing amongst the variously colored foliage featured on the vesse...

This gilt bronze French Art Nouveau figural sculpture of Loïe Fuller by Henri Levasseur features the dancer performing her famous dance of veils. F...

The "La Danse du lys" bronze sculpture is of the American performer Loïe Fuller in the midst of one of her famed dances, the dance of the lily. Her...

Argy Rousseau’s “Arbres” table lamp presents a nocturnal vision of a topiary tree. Rousseau’s stylization of trees was primarily based on Islamic A...

A bronze Art Nouveau figural candelabrum by Gustav Gurschner. A young woman with twin buns, dressed in a long flowing skirt, with her breasts expos...

This exquisite Daum Nancy ‘Coloquinte’ Flacon (perfume bottle) combines a dazzling array of techniques. The body of the vase uses the intercalaire ...

This piece, entitled "Femme au Pieuvre," or "Woman with Octopus," by François-Rupert Carabin, is a brown glazed ceramic inkwell wherein a woman ecs...

The innovative structure of Albert Cheuret's lamp mirrors a cluster of three white tulips emerging from a mound of earth. Cheuret fashioned his lam...

This French Art Nouveau pâte de verre paperweight (or "Presse Papiers") by Amalric Walter and Henri Bergé is an earlier, and smaller version of a s...

An elegant gesture of the Art nouveau line, Daum Nancy and Majorelle's calla lily table lamp features a stunningly veristic shade. Green and yellow...

A beautiful example of a ‘paysage en été’ (summer landscape), this Daum Nancy “Birch Scene” Cameo Glass Vase depicts a languid summer scene, blendi...

This floral wheel-carved cameo glass vase by Daum Nancy features a refined decoration of delicately rendered and sensitively colored blossoms. The ...

An ocean of sinuous, sweeping lines frozen in motion, this large-scale ceramic Art Nouveau planter by Hector Guimard (executed by Gilardoni et Brau...

This French Art Nouveau satin-finished cameo glass "Fleur de Coloquinte," or "Squash Blossom" vase by Daum Nancy is an ultra delicate vase that fea...

A joyously colored pink and green cameo glass vase by Daum Nancy, this charming Art Nouveau piece, with rounded body and applied foot, is decorated...

This French Art Nouveau bronze sculpture of a castanet dancer in spinning motion with dramatically flowing gown by François-Rupert Carabin, feature...

This French Art Nouveau wheel-carved cameo glass bottle with stylized stopper by Daum Nancy features a body as a dreamy, opalescent background in t...

A pair of French "Byzantine Heads" lithographs by Alphonse Mucha. The mastery evident in creating two archetypes of the female form against a decor...

A pair of French gilt bronze candelabra, "Obsession et Rêve" (Dream and Obsession), by Maurice Bouval. Each candelabrum is in the shape of a female...

In early 1896, Jane Avril traveled to London as part of the Troupe d'Églantine, to perform at the Palace Theatre. A few days before the Troupe took...

This Hizen pattern soup ladle by Gorham Mfg. Co. depicts the Chinese Goddess Xiwangmu, Queen Mother of the West, Wife of the Jade Emperor, holding ...

This elegant lithograph by Alphonse Mucha titled "En l'honneur de Sarah Bernhardt - ses admirateurs et ses amis", was one of the numerous designs e...

Tiffany’s floriated punch bowl combines ornament from around the world, demonstrating the 19th-century penchant for assimilating historical motifs ...

This cameo glass "Snow Drop" vase, by Daum Nancy, features carved light blue flowers on brown stems against a mottled white and blue ground, an ide...

This beautiful chandelier, a superb example of French Art Deco by Daum Nancy, features a flared cone-shaped shade hanging from three arms in this w...

This French Art Nouveau silver and enamel vase by Eugène Feuillâtre is decorated with delicate, leafy branches, holding charming pastel pink and go...

This French Art Nouveau lithograph, "Elles" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, heavily focuses on women for the portfolio of "Elles," one of Lautrec's g...

The form of this exquisite Edgar Brandt serpent tray was inspired by East Asian Bronze mirrors. In East Asian culture, mirrors were one of the most...

A French Art Nouveau lithograph "La Tige, Moulin Rouge" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The work, as with many of Lautrec’s crayon lithographs, is im...

This French Art Nouveau gilt bronze lighted sculpture of Loïe Fuller, was designed and sculpted by François-Raoul Larche. This​ is​ the most famous...

This artistic "Mimosa" glass vase by Daum Nancy features a pink cameo glass overlay, naturalistically modeled as a languid orchid flower in true Fr...

This gilt vitrine "aux pins" by Louis Majorelle is a masterpiece in Art Nouveau design. The gilt finish and simplicity of line that unifies the pie...

This bronze figure of a condor was designed and cast circa 1911-1912 by the Swiss-French animalier sculptor Édouard Marcel Sandoz.  Formed of richl...

Louis Majorelle’s and Daum’s “Flèche d'eau” Chandelier marks a unification of late neoclassical sensibilities and art nouveau aesthetics. The “Flèc...

This French Art Deco Charger, by Claudius Linossier, was created using the technique known as dinanderie, which involved decorating hammering out c...

A two tiered "Colocynth" ceramic vase by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat featuring his celebrated, earthen tone glazes in hues of turquoise, burgundy, moss...

A dark earthen example of Dalpayrat’s signature glaze takes center stage in this monumental composition, a remarkable work by French pottery artist...

A ceramic lidded teapot by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat featuring a spherical body decorated with dynamic sculptural ribs, an inventive crescent-shaped ...