Description
A good Maurice Dufrene Art Nouveau tea and coffee set made for La Maison Modern, comprising; tea pot and cover, coffee pot and cover, milk-jug, sugar basin and cover and two coffee cups and saucers, streamlined form, painted with whiplash foliage and flowers in coral red and green signed M Dufrene,the milk-jug marked La Maison Modern, firing line to the coffee pot, coffee pot 23cm. high
Literature
Paul Greenhalgh Art Nouveau 1890-1914, V&A exhibition catalogue, 2000 page 207 catalogue number 12.17.
Judy Rudoe Decorative Arts 1850-1950 A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, page 221 plate 76.
