Large Ceramic Lamp Stand From Legrand & Mougin Brothers Nancy, Loggers

Large Art Deco ceramic lamp stand from LEGRAND & Mougin Brothers Nancy, Loggers
Around 1925, the spindle shape vase is very elongated, with a relief / hollow décor then colored.

The vase bears in hollow on the reverse different inscriptions "Grès Mougin Nancy 233J and LEGRAND dc".
As Jacques C PFEIFFER explains in his monographic book "Les Frères MOUGIN, Sorciers du grand feu, grès et porcelaines 1898-1950", Edition FATON, Dijon 2001, this piece could be manufactured in Nancy or in their next workshop in Lunéville (the pieces do not always bear the L mark indicating the latter origin). 
No. 233 corresponds to the models creation order of the ceramists, about 1925, the letter J mean that it is Joseph MOUGIN who would have carved himself the model, and LEGRAND was decorator (DC).

This model was also edited in vase but it is here a lamp foot / stand for which were originally set a hole below in the center of the vase, and another more discreet on the base side to pass the electric wire.


The Mougin brothers worked in the Ecole de Nancy and its precepts, in particular through their collaboration with many artists and craftsmen, designers and painters, in this main idea of collaboration between various trades for the creation of "the Total Artwork ".

On the other hand, they move away from it by trying to popularize ceramic art through serial production more accessible for people, while the School of Nancy Art Nouveau creations are oftenluxurious, unique and therefore elitist.

By this way of mind, the MOUGIN Brothers had a central and important position on the XXth cty arts and crafts history, and may be one of the clearest examples of this pivotal period between Art Deco and the later artistic trends.

Size: 45.5cm high