'FLAME LEAPER', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE, IVORY AND AMBER FIGURE**

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'FLAME LEAPER', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE, IVORY AND AMBER FIGURE**
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS

--13½in. (34.2cm.) high, including stepped Belgian marble base signed 'F. Preiss.'

Lot Essay

Flame Leaper was marketed in the 1930s in London by the Phillips & MacConnal Gallery of Fine Arts at 16 Conduit Street where it was sold for 24 guineas.

Cf. B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 277 and F. M. Ricci, ed. Isadora Duncan, Paris, 1979, pp. 60, 61 and A. Duncan, ed. The Encyclopedia of Art Deco, New York, 1988, p. 35 and V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 167