Lot 46
46
'AUX ALGUES', A CARVED MAHOGANY, CAMEO GLASS AND WROUGHT-IRON CABINET
'AUX ALGUES', A CARVED MAHOGANY, CAMEO GLASS AND WROUGHT-IRON CABINET

LOUIS MAJORELLE, CIRCA 1906

Details
'AUX ALGUES', A CARVED MAHOGANY, CAMEO GLASS AND WROUGHT-IRON CABINET
Louis Majorelle, circa 1906
91in. (231.2cm.) high, 83in. (210.9cm.) wide, 21in. (53.3cm.) deep
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Buckles
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1967

Lot Essay

cf. Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle, Master of Art Nouveau Design, 1991, p. 50 for an illustration of this model exhibited at the Salon de la Socit des Artistes Dcorateurs, Paris, 1906.

This lot is accompanied by a letter from the original owner, Elizabeth Crotti Buckles, dated November 7, 1967, to the husband of the present owner of the cabinet.