Two chryselephantine figures 'Lute Player and Dancer as Beetle', c. 1925 – Roland Paris

Roland Paris
Two chryselephantine figures 'Lute Player and Dancer as Beetle', c. 1925

H. 32-35 cm (total, each). Bronze, cold painted, heads and hands made of carved ivory. Metal, cold painted. Base signed: Roland Paris, foundry signet for Ernst Kraas, Berlin (embossed).

Provenance: Private collection West Germany since 2015, auction Quittenbaum 120/460, previously private collection South Germany.

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Estimate: 5,000 € - 6,000 €

178A - Art Nouveau - Art Deco
01. July 2025 at 3:00 PM CEST

Literature:

An EC certificate from the Department of Climate and Environmental Protection of the City of Munich is available, which allows the marketing of objects containing ivory within the European Union. Shayo, Roland Paris, Woodbridge 2016, p. 202.

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Two chryselephantine figures 'Lute Player and Dancer as Beetle', c. 1925