Pair of art nouveau vases "Elsie Ward Hering".

Pair of vases The artist's signature and the founder's stamp are present on both vases. It is a pair, although it is asymmetrical (one of the vases leans more than the other), there is no general uniformity. I initially thought it was a shock (but there is no trace of impact) or a melting defect but the differences are not located in one place. And finally I saw this exact model with similar asymmetries, in a catalog of auctions. We can therefore think (to take conditional) that asymmetry is wanted, art nouveau is pushed here to the extreme, basic this movement advocates natural forms and therefore avoids as much as possible geometric shapes. But then we deliberately pushed the line, so that two vases normally identical are no longer. There are quite a few traces of usage and scratches. To avoid any misunderstanding, the article will be in the category "in its juice". That being said, I have not seen any break, and his experience, does not diminish his decorative capacity, its elegance, its monumental size gives it a certain cachet, which will affect your interior. (4-4kg) Biography (Wikipedia) " Elsie Ward (also known as Elsie Ward Hering; 1872-1923) is an American sculptor born in Fayette, Missouri. Elsie Ward began her art studies in Denver, Colorado with Preston Powers. After moving to New York, she participated in the Art Students League, where she studied with Daniel Chester French (sculptor of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington), H. Siddons Mowbray, and medalist and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. While working for Saint-Gaudens, she met one of her assistants, the sculptor Henry Hering, with whom she married in 1910. She then got a position to execute some of The St. Gauden's orders