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A BRONZE ASHTRAY

Details

A BRONZE ASHTRAY
BY ARMAND-ALBERT RATEAU

The hemispherical bowl with wide flattened rim decorated in low relief with stylized butterfly pattern and with four cigarette rests cast as butterflies alight, the entire bowl supported by four stylized cats, stamped A.A. Rateau INVB 1901 Paris--3¾in. (9.5cm.) high, 8in. (20.4cm.) diameter

Literature

Margeret Liebman Berger, Aline Meyer Liebman: Pioneer, Collector and Artist, W.F. Humphrey Press, Inc., 1982, fig. 22 for in situ photograph of the ashtray

Lot Essay

cf. The Delorenzo Gallery, AA Rateau, 1990, pp. 68-69 for an illustration of this model; Frank Olivier-Vial and François Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau: Un Baroque Chez les Modernes, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, 1992, p. 183 for an illustration of this model in gilt-bronze