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    • A pair of bronze candlesticks, Pierre-Emile Jeannest (1813-1857) for Elkington, Mason & Co, Birmingham, 19th century
      Oct. 11, 2021

      A pair of bronze candlesticks, Pierre-Emile Jeannest (1813-1857) for Elkington, Mason & Co, Birmingham, 19th century

      Est: R20,000 - R25,000

      each sconce cast with three oval portraits of classical maidens, above a drip-pan engraved with athemions, with a leaf-form column below entwined by three putti, with gargoyle masks, raised on a vase-shaped support, the pierced base centred by oval cartouches of Bacchus, raised on paw feet, impressed FUBD BY ELKINGTON MASON & CO, Jeannest Fecit, 33cm high (2)

      Strauss & Co
    • A VICTORIAN SILVER INKSTAND, DESIGNED IN 1853 BY PIERRE-EMILE JEANNEST (1813-1857) FOR ELKINGTON MASON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1854
      May. 24, 2011

      A VICTORIAN SILVER INKSTAND, DESIGNED IN 1853 BY PIERRE-EMILE JEANNEST (1813-1857) FOR ELKINGTON MASON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1854

      Est: £1,800 - £2,500

      A VICTORIAN SILVER INKSTAND, DESIGNED IN 1853 BY PIERRE-EMILE JEANNEST (1813-1857) FOR ELKINGTON, MASON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1854, shaped oval, centred to the rear by an elephant's head taperstick and to the front with a presentation inscription, oval pen depression flanked by silver-mounted etched glass inkwells, decorated with a variety of scrolled strapwork, on five scroll bracket feet, stamped 'PUBLd BY / ELKINGTON MASON & CO. / 1853' and 'E Jeannest Fecit', 38cm wide, 1048gr (33oz) The presentation inscription reads: Presented by the Temple Street Freehold Land and Building Societies to William Scholefield Esqr. M.P. as a grateful acknowledgment for the invaluable services he has rendered them. Birmingham May 28th 1855. William Scholefield (1809-1867), having championed Birmingham's bid to become an incorporated municipal borough in 1838, became its first Mayor, later serving as a Liberal MP for the borough. The French designer and modeller, Pierre-Emile Jeannest, who also worked for Mintons but transferred full-time to Elkington's in 1853, was responsible for the models of a number of Royal commissions, including Albert's famous stag candelabra at Balmoral. The Art Union was initially sceptical of his designs, apparently finding them just too French, but the publication's successor, the Art Journal, noted in their obituary of 1857 that his work 'did much to elevate the production of Messrs Elkington to the position now universally assigned to them' and that 'his chief characteristic as a man was that of exceeding bonhommie. In this he was more English than French.' (Art Journal, 1857, p.227)

      Matthew Barton Ltd
    • EMILE JEANNEST (FRENCH, 1813-1857) TWO ALLEGORICAL GROUPS OF EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION
      May. 20, 1994

      EMILE JEANNEST (FRENCH, 1813-1857) TWO ALLEGORICAL GROUPS OF EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION

      Est: -

      Signed E. Jeannest fecit and inscribed Manufrd. & Pubed.by Elkington Mason & Co, 1854, one group numbered 899, depicting classical groups of seated females, each with a child at her knee Bronze, deep brown patination 34 cm (13 1/2 in) high overall (2) Jeannest was the first in a distinguished group of French sculptors who had a profound influence on British design in parian and bronze around the middle of the nineteenth century. Son of a bronze manufacturer and pupil of the painter Paul Delaroche, he arrived in England about 1845. Three years later he was employed by Herbert Minton to design work in parian and to teach at the Potteries School of Design in Stoke. His teaching was highly respected and his designs, once he tempered his overt French treatment, were very popular. Jeannest was instrumental as a link between the potteries and other French sculptors such as Pradier, Dantan and Feuchere, but soon after Carrier-Belleuse began working for Minton in 1850, he joined Elkington's bronze foundry in Birmingham and established an equally high reputation as a draugtsman and modeller for bronzes. These two fine groups are characteristic of his balanced compositions and intricate modelling. Other examples of his work for Elkington are three equestrian groups produced as the Warwick Race Plate from 1851 to 1853. Literature: Obituary, The Art Journal, 1857, p.227-8. Philip Ward-Jackson, "French Modellers in the Potteries", in The Parian Phenomenon, (ed. Paul Atterbury), 1989, p.49-50.

      Sotheby's
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