{"id":9301,"date":"2011-05-06T02:20:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2011-05-06T02:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:20:55","slug":"the-mirror-of-narcissus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/06\/the-mirror-of-narcissus\/","title":{"rendered":"The mirror of Narcissus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nocq1.jpg\" alt=\"nocq1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Browsing another <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> magazine\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k57228330.image.langEN.r=arte%20et%20decoration\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Revue des Arts D\u00e9coratifs<\/em><\/a> for 1897\u2014turned up this design for a hand-mirror by Henri Nocq (or Henry as they also name him). Illustrational design was a common feature of the Art Nouveau period, and Nocq&#8217;s Narcissus-themed mirror is an ingenious confection complete with etched pond ripples, pearl-flowered lily pads, and even (though you can barely see it here) a carnelian frog. The body of the mirror was silver with narcissus flowers moulded into the obverse side. I&#8217;m surprised I haven&#8217;t come across this object before which makes me think it may not have survived. (Unless you know better&#8230;) As for Henri Nocq, there&#8217;s far more attention devoted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everypainterpaintshimself.com\/article\/toulouse-lautrecs_portrait_of_henri_nocq\/\" target=\"_blank\">portrait of him by Toulouse-Lautrec<\/a> (also 1897) than there is to the designer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nocq2.jpg\" alt=\"nocq2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/pye.jpg\" alt=\"pye.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For a more contemporary sculptural take on the theme, there&#8217;s <em>Narcissus<\/em>, an early work from 1969 by British artist William Pye. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williampye.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his website<\/a> for other work including some gorgeous water sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/12\/20\/le-baiser-de-narcisse\/\">Le Baiser de Narcisse<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/03\/07\/reflections-of-narcissus\/\">Reflections of Narcissus<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/03\/05\/narcissus\/\">Narcissus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing another fin de si\u00e8cle magazine\u2014Revue des Arts D\u00e9coratifs for 1897\u2014turned up this design for a hand-mirror by Henri Nocq (or Henry as they also name him). Illustrational design was a common feature of the Art Nouveau period, and Nocq&#8217;s Narcissus-themed mirror is an ingenious confection complete with etched pond ripples, pearl-flowered lily pads, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/06\/the-mirror-of-narcissus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The mirror of Narcissus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,2,4,41],"tags":[136,2513,2064,225,7250,2514],"class_list":["post-9301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-nouveau","category-art","category-design","category-sculpture","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-henri-nocq","tag-henri-toulouse-lautrec","tag-narcissus","tag-toulouse-lautrec","tag-william-pye"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2q1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}