The Met purchased this extravagant glass bowl, with its discrete yet somewhat disturbing snake motif, directly from Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann’s pavilion at the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes . It was probably part of a large selection of glass and ceramics displayed in the entrance hall.
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Dimensions:5 × 11 3/4 × 7 1/8 in., 5.5 lb. (12.7 × 29.8 × 18.1 cm, 2.5 kg)
Classification:Glass
Credit Line:Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1925
Object Number:25.211
Inscription: Signed (artist's stamp on side of bowl, near bottom, within a shell shape): DECORCHEMENT; inscribed (on bottom): A107
the designer (1925; sold to MMA)
Paris. Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes. April–October 1925.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Twentieth Century Glass: American and European," April 21–September 17, 1950.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Modern Glass in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 20, 1995–March 10, 1996, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Art Deco Paris," June 8, 2004–February 6, 2005, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of French Art Deco," August 4, 2009–January 23, 2011, no catalogue.
Kansas City, Mo. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. "Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851–1939," April 14–August 19, 2012, no. 161 (as "Bowl").
Pittsburgh. Carnegie Museum of Art. "Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851–1939," October 13, 2012–February 24, 2013, no. 161 (as "Bowl").
New Orleans Museum of Art. "Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851–1939," April 12–August 4, 2013, no. 161 (as "Bowl").
Charlotte, N. C. Mint Museum Uptown. "Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851–1939," September 9, 2013–January 19, 2014, no. 161 (as "Bowl").
René Chavance. "Les Pâtes de verre de Décorchemont." Art et décoration 49 (March 1926), p. 76.
Penelope Hunter. "Art Déco: The Last Hurrah." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 30 (June–July 1972), p. 258.
Véronique Ayroles. François Décorchemont: Maître de la pâte de verre, 1880–1971. Paris, 2006, pp. 6, 118, 122–23, 129, 265, 316.
Stephen Harrison inInventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851–1939. Exh. cat., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Pittsburgh, 2012, pp. 217, 269, no. 161, fig. 46 (color).
Jared Goss. French Art Deco. New York, 2014, pp. 59–61, 254, no. 12, ill. (color, overall and detail).
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