Bathroom Set, Baccarat Perfume Bottles, Marcel Goupy / Jean Luce 1910, Enamel

Antique bathroom vanity set.
Clear crystal from the prestigious Baccarat crystal house.
Enamelled decoration of parakeets.
Created by the artist Marcel Goupy (1886-1954).
Circa 1920.
The set is in very good condition.


Marcel Goupy (1886-1954) was a watercolor painter before developing a passion for ceramics and glass. A graduate of the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, his meeting with Georges (Géo) Rouard in 1909 was pivotal to his career. He began his collaboration with the gallery owner Rouard by providing designs and decorations for glassware. These first enameled pieces appeared in 1914. In 1919, he became head decorator at the gallery, then its artistic director in 1929 upon Géo Rouard's death, a position he held until 1954 in the workshop of the "Cristallerie de la Paix" store, located at 34-36 Avenue de l'Opéra in Paris. This store, along with his decorating workshop on Rue Vieille du Temple, was taken over by Géo Rouard. It became a center for the dissemination of avant-garde decorative creations after the First World War. Marcel Goupy's work remains characterized by plant motifs and depictions of nude women. The technique he developed is based on the projection of opaque or translucent enamels outlined in black.