'Moth Girl', a cold painted bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young girl wearing fancy red costume of jacket, pointed cap and knickerbockers, stepping forward and turning round to observe champagne glass in left hand, on square base above red marble waisted socle, the base inscribed 14 June 1905-1939, signed in the bronze (antenna from cap missing) -- 41cm. high
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'Moth Girl', a cold painted bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young girl wearing fancy red costume of jacket, pointed cap and knickerbockers, stepping forward and turning round to observe champagne glass in left hand, on square base above red marble waisted socle, the base inscribed 14 June 1905-1939, signed in the bronze (antenna from cap missing) -- 41cm. high See illustration
Lot Essay
C.f. Brian Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures (Woodbridge 1978), p.279