'DANCER WITH FEATHERED TOQUE', A RARE COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE**

CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS

Details

'DANCER WITH FEATHERED TOQUE', A RARE COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE**
Cast and Carved From a Model by Ferdinand Preiss
The bronze inscribed F.PREISS, on veined black marble base
8 5/8in. (21.9cm.) high

Lot Essay

cf. Bryan Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, 1978, p. 266 for a photograph of this model, which is a rare figure. See also Editions Graphiques Gallery (intro. by Victor Arwas) Chryselephantine Sculpture, n.d., fig. 67 and Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, 1992, p. 187 for illustrations of this model.