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A RARE AND IMPORTANT BRONZE AND MARBLE CONSOLE TABLE AND MIRROR
BY ALBERT CHEURET
The console with a large sculpted bronze winged owl with green patina seated on a marble and bronze plinth, supporting a marble top with tapering angular mirror surmounted by a bronze capital concealing a light, inscribed signature on right wing 'Albert Cheuret'--80 in. (203cm.) high, 23 5/8 in.(60 cm.) wide, 13 1/2 (34cm.) deep
BY ALBERT CHEURET
The console with a large sculpted bronze winged owl with green patina seated on a marble and bronze plinth, supporting a marble top with tapering angular mirror surmounted by a bronze capital concealing a light, inscribed signature on right wing 'Albert Cheuret'--80 in. (203cm.) high, 23 5/8 in.(60 cm.) wide, 13 1/2 (34cm.) deep
Provenance
Rodolphe Tourville, (1867-1935) politician, industrialist, purchased from the artist at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriel Modernes, Paris, 1925 as a graduation present for his son R. Rodolphe Tourville (1897-1957), architect, on his completion of his architectural studies at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris and by descent in this family