Eugene Cornu Champleve Enamel Bronze and Onyx Centerpiece Bowl
Our French onyx stone centerpiece bowl, circa 1870, features ormolu bronze handles in dragon form raised on dragon feet plus two bracket supports formed as owls and fine champleve enamel decorations throughout.
Underside of one foot has a stamped mark of the letter s, otherwise unsigned.
Possibly by Louis Francois Eugene Cornu (1827-1899).
Eugène Cornu was a prominent Parisian artist known for using Algerian marble and onyx. Working closely with G. Viot, he exhibited extensively at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867. He also exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1874 and was a director of a bronze foundry as well as several other establishments in Paris. He collaborated with G. Viot et Cie to form The Algerian Onyx-Marbles Co. at 24 boulevard des Italiens in Paris. They both had a huge success at the London 1862 and Paris 1867 Exposition Universelle, consequently winning the médaille d'or in 1867. See Calalogue de la Exposition Universelle de 1862, Section française, London 1862; Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture, J.B.Waring, London 1862.
