LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Silvered bronze, alabaster

Size Notes:

drop; diameter: 86.4 cm

Markings:

Top of stem incised with Albert Cheuret, each wing impressed MADE IN FRANCE and each pair of wings inscribed with numbers consecutively

Literature:

Lumières, je pense à vous, exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1985, p. 124, fig. 22; Charlotte and Peter Fiell, eds., 1000 Lights, Vol. 1: 1879 to 1959, Cologne, 2005, p. 214 for a similar example; Alastair Duncan, Art Deco Complete, New York, 2009, p. 235, for a similar example

Provenance:

Private collection, Paris; DeLorenzo Gallery, New York, circa 1985; Private collection, Long Island, 1991