ARMAND-ALBERT RATEAU, CIRCA 1925

cf. The Delorenzo Gallery, AA Rateau (exh. cat.), 1990, p. 68 for period illustrations of the ashtray model and p. 69 for another illustration of the model; Frank Olivier-Vial and François Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau, 1992, pp. 180-181 for a period photograph of the salon at 17, quai de Conti, that shows the ashtray model in situ, and p. 183 for an illustration of the model in gilt-bronze. The model was also exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1926.