'CABARET GIRL', A PARCEL-SILVERED AND COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY DANCER

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'CABARET GIRL', A PARCEL-SILVERED AND COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY DANCER
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS, GERMAN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

inscribed 'F. PREISS.' ----- 14½in. (36.9cm.) high, including green onyx waisted socle

Lot Essay

Caberet Girl was marketed in the 1930s in London by the Phillips & MacConnal Gallery of Fine Arts at 16 Conduit Street where it was sold for 23 guineas.

cf. V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, London, 1975, p. 93 and B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 282 for other examples of this model