Lot Essay
cf. F. Marcilhac, Jean Dunand: His Life and Works, New York, 1991, p. 114 for a sketch by Dunand of a vase decorated with a similar fish motif, p. 309 for a highly comparable vase which was presented to Mme Raymond Poincaré, the wife of the Prime Minister and former President of the French Republic, on the occasion of her husband's 68th birthday.