THESMAR, André-Fernand
(b. 1843, Chalon-sur-Saône, d. 1912, Neuilly-sur-Seine)

Bowl with Anemones

1900
Gold, translucent enamel, plique-à-jour technique, 5 x 9 cm
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

This object is a hemispherical bowl with a gold base ring and a gold band edging the rim. The curved walls are decorated in a translucent enamel with two tiers of ten white anemones with blue centres, their green stems generating from a brown trellis below, consisting of a row of thin pointed arches. The centre of the base bears the mirror monogram "FT" below the date 1900, also in plique-à-jour.