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A FINE AND IMPORTANT BRONZE AND MARBLE TABLE
BY ARMAND-ALBERT RATEAU, CIRCA 1922
Four finely cast bird of highly stlylized form and feather grasping spheres supporting a rectangular marble top with conforming white marble stringing, the bronze with a green patina, each bird stamped A A RATEAU INVR 5545 1272, one additionally stamped PARIS--13in. (33cm.) high, 34 1/2in. (87.5cm.) wide, 15in. (38cm.) deep
cf. International Studio, December, 1925, p. 162; Yvonne Brunhammer, Le Style 1925, Baschet et Cie, Paris, n.d., p. 41; Victor Arwas, Art Deco, Abrams, New York, 1980, p. 82; Alastair Duncan, AA Rateau, the Delorenzo Gallery, New York, 1990, pp. 13, 15, 22, 48, 63-65, where the tables are shown in the Jeanne Lanvin's Paris townhouse, The Metropolitan Museum of art Exhibition of 1926 and the Duchess of Alba's Liria Palace in Madrid; Derek Ostergard, Art Deco Masterpieces, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., New York, 1991, pp. 50-51
This model as it was shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1926 exhibition. The table rests on a leopard rug before a Rateau salon suite, lamps and screen; and a Rateau ashtray rests on its top.
BY ARMAND-ALBERT RATEAU, CIRCA 1922
Four finely cast bird of highly stlylized form and feather grasping spheres supporting a rectangular marble top with conforming white marble stringing, the bronze with a green patina, each bird stamped A A RATEAU INVR 5545 1272, one additionally stamped PARIS--13in. (33cm.) high, 34 1/2in. (87.5cm.) wide, 15in. (38cm.) deep
cf. International Studio, December, 1925, p. 162; Yvonne Brunhammer, Le Style 1925, Baschet et Cie, Paris, n.d., p. 41; Victor Arwas, Art Deco, Abrams, New York, 1980, p. 82; Alastair Duncan, AA Rateau, the Delorenzo Gallery, New York, 1990, pp. 13, 15, 22, 48, 63-65, where the tables are shown in the Jeanne Lanvin's Paris townhouse, The Metropolitan Museum of art Exhibition of 1926 and the Duchess of Alba's Liria Palace in Madrid; Derek Ostergard, Art Deco Masterpieces, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., New York, 1991, pp. 50-51
This model as it was shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1926 exhibition. The table rests on a leopard rug before a Rateau salon suite, lamps and screen; and a Rateau ashtray rests on its top.