Lot 209: GUSTAVE-JOSEPH CHÉRET 1838-1894 A LARGE PAIR OF ART NOUVEAU PATINATED BRONZE JARDINIÈRE PARIS, CIRCA 1895

GUSTAVE-JOSEPH CHÉRET 1838-1894 A LARGE PAIR OF ART NOUVEAU PATINATED BRONZE JARDINIÈRE PARIS, CIRCA 1895 each signed Joseph CHERET ; one stamped COPYRIGHT BY / SOLEAU PARIS / 1894 ; each with a copper liner. height 15 in.; width 18 in. square 38.1 cm; 45.7 cm

Gustave-Joseph Chéret studied sculpture under the great nineteenth-century master, Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. Chéret joined the master's atelier and married Carrier-Belleuse's daughter, Marie. As an accomplished creator of decorative arts and sculpture, he was perfectly placed to succeed his father-in-law as artistic director of the Sèvres factory after Carrier-Belleuse died in 1887. See S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'école française, au dix-neuvième siècle, Paris, 1914,