Lot 160
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'CHARLESTON DANCER', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE OF A DANCER**

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'CHARLESTON DANCER', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE OF A DANCER**
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS, GERMAN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

inscribed 'F. PREISS.' and stamped with the Preiss-Kassler foundry seal--16¼in. (41.3cm.) high, including marble and onyx base

Lot Essay

Charleston Dancer, also known as Red Dancer, was marketed in the 1930s by the Phillips & MacConnal Gallery of the Fine Arts at 16 Conduit where it was sold for 18 guineas.

Cf. V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, 1975, p. 92 and B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 282 and V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 177