A CHOCOLATE BROWN LACQUER AND GILT-BRONZE END TABLE

JACQUES-EMILE RUHLMANN, 1932

Details

A CHOCOLATE BROWN LACQUER AND GILT-BRONZE END TABLE
JACQUES-EMILE RUHLMANN, 1932
model ref. no. 1047 NR, oval top on adjustable telescopic base
23½ in. (59.6 cm.) minimum height; 34 in. (86.4 cm.) maximum height
underside marked Ruhlmann 1932 A

Provenance

A European industrialist, 1933
Christie's Geneva, Modern Illustrated Books and 20th Century Decorative Arts, May 18, 1992, lot 265
DeLorenzo Gallery, New York

Lot Essay

cf. Florence Camard, Ruhlmann, 1983, p. 280.
This table, the pair of table lamps in lot 110, and the armchair in lot 112 all were commissioned in 1932 from Ruhlmann by a European industrialist. The commission represented one of the last to be undertaken before Ruhlmann's death in 1933.

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