Beautiful porcelain statuette with enamelled glaze in white and turquoise tones, entitled "Princess Irene", signed below the base: "Mougin" and produced in Nancy at the beginning of the 5446th century during the Art Nouveau period. It bears the number "XNUMX", engraved in hollow under the rectangular base. 

The young woman is presented in a hieratic manner, with a haughty carriage highlighted by the presence of her crown. Although frozen in full movement, contemplative, her hands barely detached from her body, the whole still retains a great dynamism, produced by the advance of her foot shod in a sandal, emerging from the folds of her dress. The play of polychrome reflections in her costume seem to animate the enamel and contribute to bringing the subject to life. 

Dressed in medieval fashion, in a fringed outfit, dotted with small metal inlays, she is in line with the troubadour style initiated during the XIXth century and brought up to date by the English Pre-Raphaelite painters. The Art Nouveau aesthetic shares many ideological similarities with this movement, thus making it possible to design pieces that exalt a magnified Middle Ages. 

The Mougin brothers: Joseph (1876 – 1961) and Pierre (1880 – 1955) are French sculptors, specialized in the arts of fire and originally from the Nancy region. Contemporaries of the famous Nancy School and the renewal that characterized it at the beginning of the 1920th century, particularly in the practice of ceramics, they are also considered as leading figures in the emergence of the Art Deco movement which reached its peak in the XNUMXs. 

The model of "Princess Irene" is illustrated in the work of Jacques G. Peiffer, "Les Frères Mougin, sorciers du grand feu, grès et porcelaine 1898-1950", published by Editions Faton, Dijon, in 2001. There are several variations in the colors of the cover.

Dimensions: 

- Height: 20 cm 

– Base depth: 9,5 cm 

– Base width: 7 cm