JOSEPH MOUGIN (1876-1961) & GRÈS MOUGIN À NANCY Les Sirènes, also known as Les Nymphes, the model created around [1900]. Vase in symbolist style. Polychrome glazed ceramic proof; the decoration of women emanating from roots in slight relief. Art nouveau period. Signed J. MOUGIN towards the base, marked MOUGIN Nancy under the base. Height: 36 cm Public collection and related work : Musée de l'École de Nancy - An identical model, with color variations, is kept in the collections of this institution under inventory number500 (Donation Corbin, 1935). Bibliography : - Répertoire Mougin, 1921 - The model is referenced and reproduced under catalog number 10.J. - Alastair Duncan - The Paris Salons, 1895-1914 - Vol. IV: Ceramics and Glass - Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995. Identical model, with color variations, reproduced on page 14. - Jacques Peiffer - Les frères Mougin, sorciers du grand feu, grès et porcelaine - Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Villa Vauban, Musée d'Art de la ville de Luxembourg, from May 12 to August 19, 2001, Éditions Faton, Dijon, 2001. An identical model, with color variations, in the Musée de l'École de Nancy, reproduced on page 41. - Jacques Peiffer - Joseph et Bernard Mougin, ode à la femme - Éditions Faton, Dijon, 2011.identical model, with color variations, reproduced on page 34, as well as in the 1921 Mougin Directory under number 10.J.