Lot n° 199
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Georges BASTARD (1881-1939) - Lot 199
Georges BASTARD (1881-1939)
"Butterfly by night".
Ebony box with a domed circular body and a circular projecting lid decorated with carved horn on a mother-of-pearl background. Direct-cut decoration (the horn is slightly missing and the wood is cracked).
Signed and dated (19)11 on the reverse, label numbered 119.
Height 3.5 cm - diameter 8.5 cm
History: at the 1908 Salon, he exhibited a button with a similar design, and in 1909 a rectangular box with the same design.
Bibliography: Alastair Duncan, The Paris salons 1895-1914 Volume I: Jewellery, Woodbridge, Antique collector's club, 1994, model of button with similar decoration referenced and reproduced p.48. Pierre Goujon, "Les salons de 1909", Gazette des Beaux-arts, 1909, 51st year, model of box referenced and reproduced p. 237-261, ill. p. 261. Maurice Testard, "Georges Bastard, décorateur de la nacre", L'Art Décoratif, July-December 1909, model of box referenced and reproduced p. 203; Maurice Pillard Verneuil, "Les objets d'art au Salon", Art et Décoration, 1909, model of box referenced and reproduced p. 60; Charles Saunier, "Le 5e Salon de la Société des artistes décorateurs", Art et Décoration, 1910, model of box referenced and reproduced p. 139.
We would like to thank Clara Screve for her help in compiling this notice.
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