'Tambourin Player', a cold painted silvered and gilt bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young woman, wearing a hat, fluid blouse and knickerbockers with a striped sash around the waist, standing holding a tambourine under the right arm and with the left hand resting on her hip, her head slight raised, on stepped square base in panels of green, black and brown onyx, the base inscribed F Preiss -- 23.5cm. high

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'Tambourin Player', a cold painted silvered and gilt bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young woman, wearing a hat, fluid blouse and knickerbockers with a striped sash around the waist, standing holding a tambourine under the right arm and with the left hand resting on her hip, her head slight raised, on stepped square base in panels of green, black and brown onyx, the base inscribed F Preiss -- 23.5cm. high
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Lot Essay

C.f. Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture (London 1992), p.201

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