DECORATIVE OBJECTS

MAURICE MARINOT

SILEX FLASK, 1934

Flattened glass bottle with inclusions of blue, brown, and red enamels, featuring a bubble effect. The upper translucent layer is hot-cut and flint-polished.
Original stopper.

H 9 - L 10.5 cm.
H 3 1/2 - L 4 1/8 in.

Handwritten signature 'marinot' engraved with a stylus on the reverse.

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Provenance

César Marge de Hauke (1900 - 1965) Collection; Galerie Jacques Seligmann.; Drouot, Paris, Laurin, Guilloux, Bouffetaud, November 15th, 1971, n°130 ; Michaël Chow Collection; Sotheby's, New York, , Glass by Maurice Marinot and Jewelry by Fouquet, Templier and Despres: The Collection of Michael Chow, June 15th 1994, n°3; Private Collection.

Exhibitions

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, L’Art du verre, Paris, 1951, the present flask illustrated and referenced in the catalogue under no. 905.

Musée Galliera, Paris 09–29: Fastes et décors de la vie parisienne de 1909 à 1929, exhibition, Musée Galliera, Paris, June–August 1957 (foreword by Jean Cocteau; introduction by René Héron de Villefosse), the present flask illustrated and referenced in the catalogue under no. 133.

Literature

Félix Marcilhac, 'Maurice Marinot (1882-1960), Artisan Verrier: Catalogue Raisonne de l'oeuvre de Verre', Les Editions de l'Amateur, 2013, p. 688, cat. MM no. 2401
Musée d'Art Moderne de Troyes, Maurice Marinot: Penser en verre, Somogy Editions, 2010 — to be compared with the model reproduced on page 79, part of the collection of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

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