A GILT-BRASS MOUNTED ORANGE LACQUER AND GILT-WOOD OCCASIONAL TABLE, designed by Jean Rothschild and Jean Dunand for the Grand Salon of the S.S. "Normandie", circa 1934, the circular orange lacquered top with a molded gilt-brass edging, above a conforming gilt-wood frieze, on tapering molded slightly splayed legs, branded SCLOWER--22in. (56cm.) high, 27½in. (70cm.) diameter

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A GILT-BRASS MOUNTED ORANGE LACQUER AND GILT-WOOD OCCASIONAL TABLE, designed by Jean Rothschild and Jean Dunand for the Grand Salon of the S.S. "Normandie", circa 1934, the circular orange lacquered top with a molded gilt-brass edging, above a conforming gilt-wood frieze, on tapering molded slightly splayed legs, branded SCLOWER--22in. (56cm.) high, 27½in. (70cm.) diameter

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cf. Louis-René Vian, Art Décoratifs Á Bord Des Paquebots Francais, Éditions Fonmare, Paris, 1995, p. 198 for an illustration of this model, Bruno Foucart et al, Normandie Queen of the Seas, Vendome Press, New York, 1985, p. 70-71 for illustrations of this model in use in the Grand Salon

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