'Hoop Girl', enamelled and silvered bronze and ivory figure cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young girl wearing a knickerbocker dress, enamelled with flowers, standing resting against a large hoop, the head turned to the left, on sloping rectangular brown onyx base, (signed onthe base) -- 20cm. high

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'Hoop Girl', enamelled and silvered bronze and ivory figure cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young girl wearing a knickerbocker dress, enamelled with flowers, standing resting against a large hoop, the head turned to the left, on sloping rectangular brown onyx base, (signed onthe base) -- 20cm. high

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C.f. B. Catley Art Deco and Other Figures (Woodbridge 1978), p.267

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