'Ectasy', a patinated and silvered bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young woman wearing a diamond panelled costume with copper patination and traces of blue, kneeling forward with one leg stretched back, holding aloft a large hoop, on sloping stepped rectangular brown and black onyx base -- 54cm. high; 42cm. long

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'Ectasy', a patinated and silvered bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young woman wearing a diamond panelled costume with copper patination and traces of blue, kneeling forward with one leg stretched back, holding aloft a large hoop, on sloping stepped rectangular brown and black onyx base -- 54cm. high; 42cm. long
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C.f. Brian Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures (Woodbridge 1978), p.273

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