Lot 55
55
A PAIR OF BRONZE CAT-FORM ANDIRONS
A period photograph showing the cat-form andirons as part of the fireplace decoration ((C) Jean-Claude Billing and Laurent Sully Jaulmes) THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF BRONZE CAT-FORM ANDIRONS

ARMAND ALBERT RATEAU, CIRCA 1929

Details
A PAIR OF BRONZE CAT-FORM ANDIRONS
Armand Albert Rateau, circa 1929
each 8¼in. (21cm.) high, 13¾in. (35cm.) long
left cat stamped A.A. RATEAU on body and A.A. RATEAU INV PARIS 6536 on underside; right cat stamped A.A. RATEAU INV 1353 on body and each fleurette (2)
Provenance
Galerie Vallois, Paris

Lot Essay

cf. Franck Olivier-Vial and François Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau, 1992, p. 155 for an illustration of the andiron model in Rateau's atelier in 1929, p. 167 (bottom) for an illustration of the model, and p. 197 for an illustration of the model in situ.

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