Vase des Binelles

Inscription: Signed (lower edge, incised): HECTOR GUIMARD

Marking: Stamped (bottom): S 1903 [within a triangle, twice]

possibly Nourhan Manoukian, Paris (by 1966–d. 1993; his estate sale, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, December 17, 1993, no. 92); Dr. Ludwig Vell, Zurich (until 1994; sold on May 31, 1994 to Ellison); Robert A. Ellison Jr., New York (1994–2013; his sale to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Making Pottery Art: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of French Ceramics," February 4, 2014–March 15, 2015, no catalogue.

New York. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. "Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves," November 18, 2022–May 21, 2023, no. 73 (as "Binelles Vase").

Chicago. Richard H. Driehaus Museum. "Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism," June 22–November 5, 2023, no. 73.

Geneviève Coste. "Style 1900. Style 1925." Connaissance des arts no. 178 (December 1966), p. 128 [possibly this work].

Serge Gauthier and Tamara Préaud. Ceramics of the 20th Century. New York, 1982, p. 6.

Maurice Rheims. Hector Guimard. New York, 1982, p. 219.

Philippe Thiébaut, ed. Guimard. Paris, 1993, p. 264.

Paul Greenhalgh, ed. Art Nouveau, 1890-1914. Exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 2000, p. 200.

Martin Eidelberg in Edmond Lachenal and His Legacy. Exh. cat., Jason Jacques Gallery. New York, 2007, p. 34, fig. 24 (color detail).

Jason T. Busch and Catherine L. Futter. Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851–1939. Exh. cat., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. Pittsburgh, 2012, p. 199.

Jeffrey Munger and Jane Adlin in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 2012–2014." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 72 (Fall 2014), pp. 60–61, ill. (color).

Adrienne Spinozzi in Shapes from Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2021, p. 7, fig. 3 (color).

David A. Hanks in Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism. Ed. David A. Hanks. Exh. cat., Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York. Chicago, 2021, p. 142, no. 73, ill. p. 143 (color).