'Hoop girl', c. 1930

Lot: 777

H. 20.5 cm (incl. base). Bronze, silvered, blue patina, painted. Face, throat, arms and legs of carved ivory. Brass ring. Signed: F. Preiss (incised), signet of Preiss & Kassler (faint). Onyx base.

Please note that due to US and Japanese law this item cannot be sold to any US state or territory and to Japan because it contains Material protected by the Washington conservation agreement such as ivory, rhino horn or rosewood etc.

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Hammer Price: 2,700 €

141C - Auction Art Nouveau - Art Deco
21. November 2018 at 2:00 PM CET

Literature:

Shayo, Ferdinand Preiss, Woodbridge 2005, p. 130, p. 49, archive photo of the Preiss & Kassler booth at Leipziger Messe, 1930.

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'Hoop girl', c. 1930

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