Lot 246
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'Bo Peep', a cold-painted silvered bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young girl wearing a sleeveless blue tinted short dress with assymetric hem, the skirt decorated with flowers, standing with left hand at the back of her head, holding a short bamboo pole in the right hand, on stepped semi-circular green and black and onyx base, the base inscribed F Preiss

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'Bo Peep', a cold-painted silvered bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young girl wearing a sleeveless blue tinted short dress with assymetric hem, the skirt decorated with flowers, standing with left hand at the back of her head, holding a short bamboo pole in the right hand, on stepped semi-circular green and black and onyx base, the base inscribed F Preiss
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Lot Essay

C.f. Brian Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures (Woodbridge 1978), p.316. Although depicted in the illustration holding a long shepherd's crook, it is felt that the bamboo style curved pole with this figure is original

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