Paris, Librairie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne (Ancienne Librairie J. Rouam & Cie.), [1900-1901]. Title page in red and black, pp. 7-8; 116 plates on 115 sheets, containing nearly 2,800 shapes and individual designs. Quarter linen portfolio over pebbled boards. Front board with printed title.

A kaleidoscope of possible vase shapes and examples of Art Nouveau designs, by the French designer, architect and ceramist Alexandre Sandier (1843-1916), a director of the design and manufacturing department of the porcelain factory at Sèvres, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, founded in 1740 as Manufacture de Vincennes. "In 1897, Émile Baungart, the administrator of the Sèvres factory, appointed an interior designer who had joined the institution the previous year as a designer of shapes and decorations as director of the art design and production. Alexandre Sandier, trained at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and then with Russel Sturgiss in Chicago, then committed the factory to a revitalization program to prepare it for the 1900 Universal Exhibition. As an animator, renovator, and technician, Sandier had a strong impact on Sèvres. His sense of architecture led him in particular to develop a new porcelain stoneware, resistant to the outdoors and usable in monumental projects" (Musée La Piscine website). Plate numbers are used twice, for simple line drawings each showing an array of related shapes, and again for one or more elaborations, in great detail. Lacking a half-title, and two text leaves (numbered p. 5-6). Boards a bit stained; Plate 39(bis) toned on recto, small chip to lower edge of the title and Plate 58(bis), otherwise very good. Neither in Evers, Ornamentale Vorlagenwerke, nor in Schneider-Henn, Ornament und Dekoration.