Bronze patinated pocket emptier with swan decoration by Max Le Verrier.

Signed "M. Le Verrier" in relief under the base, this jug is the work of the Parisian sculptor and founder Max Le Verrier (1891–1973), trained at the École des beaux-arts in Paris and a central figure in French decorative bronze from the interwar period. A regular exhibitor at the Salon des artistes français, he received several awards there in the 1920s, during which time he set up his workshop on rue de Chabrol in Paris and developed a high-quality bronze edition distributed through major Parisian commercial circuits. The ornamental vocabulary draws on two distinct sources: the naturalistic repertoire of the shell and the aquatic bird, inherited from the long tradition of animal-shaped ewers from the Renaissance and 17th-century Europe; and the synthetic geometrisation of the spiral characteristic of the Art Deco language, which replaces the faithful imitation of the living with a rhythmic and abstract construction of form. Among the bronziers and sculptors with whom Le Verrier shares this style are Pierre Le Faguays, Marcel Bouraine, and Georges Leleu. In very good condition.