Live Auction 263620th Century Decorative Art & Design
RENE BUTHAUD (1886-1986)
Lot 105 Property from an Important New York Private Collection

RENE BUTHAUD (1886-1986)

'PEAU DE SERPENT' A GLAZED CERAMIC TABLE LAMP, CIRCA 1927

Closed8 March 2012

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RENE BUTHAUD (1886-1986)
'Peau de Serpent' A Glazed Ceramic Table Lamp, circa 1927
with linen shade
21½ in. (54.6 cm.) high
base signed J. Doris

Camard & Associés, Paris, 6 February 2006, lot 56.

Specialist note

cf. Musée des Arts Décoratifs de la Ville de Bordeaux, Céramiques de Renée Buthaud, Bordeaux, 1976, p. 136 for a vase with similar 'peau de serpent' craquelure.
P. Cruège, Renée Buthaud: 1886-1986, Paris, 1996, p. 116 for period examples of this motif in Buthaud's atelier.