Live Auction 2499DeLorenzo: Thirty Years, Evening Sale
EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
Lot 11

EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)

AN AMBOYNA, MIRRORED GLASS AND MARBLE VANITY, CIRCA 1928

Closed14 December 2010

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EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
An Amboyna, Mirrored Glass and Marble Vanity, circa 1928
with gilt-bronze hardware; the back also veneered with amboyna; with solid macassar ebony drawers
89¼ in. (226.5 cm.) high, 65½ in. (166.4 cm.) wide, 20½ in. (52 cm.) deep
branded Ruhlmann three times

Sotheby's, New York, 7 March 1987, lot 194.
Fred Silberman, New York.
John Mecom, Houston.
Sotheby's, New York, 18/19 November 1994, lot 460.
Private Collection, Florida.

Specialist note

cf. F. Camard, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Paris, 1983, p. 118 for an illustration of a vanity of this model at the 1928 Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris.
F. Camard, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Paris, 2009, p. 273 and catalogue raisonnée 1532AR-1950NR.