Details
'THOUGHTS', AN IVORY FIGURE OF A SEATED GIRL**
CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS
--6¼in. (16cm.) high, including Belgian marble and green onyx base signed 'F. Preiss'
CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS
--6¼in. (16cm.) high, including Belgian marble and green onyx base signed 'F. Preiss'
Further details
The all ivory version of Thoughts was marketed in the 1930's in London by Phillips & MacConnal Gallery fo Fine Arts at 16 Conduit Street where it was sold for 13 guineas
cf. Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, 1975, p. 96 for an example of this model
cf. Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, 1975, p. 96 for an example of this model