Live Auction 2569Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design
ARMAND ALBERT RATEAU (1881-1938)
Lot 160

ARMAND ALBERT RATEAU (1881-1938)

A SET OF FOUR 'PALMES' TABLE LEGS, CIRCA 1934-1937

Closed14 June 2012

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ARMAND ALBERT RATEAU (1881-1938)
A SET OF FOUR 'PALMES' TABLE LEGS, CIRCA 1934-1937
green-patinated bronze lost wax cast by Valsuani, with associated marble top of recent manufacture
24¾ in. (70.5 cm.) high, 47¼ in. (120 cm.) wide, 15½ in. (39.4 cm.) deep
each leg stamped A.A. Rateau Modelé Déposé Paris and cire C. Valsuani Perdue Bronze

Specialist note

cf. F. Olivier-Vial, F. Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau, Paris, 1992, p. 218 for contemporary illustration of the dressing room of the Comtesse de Beaurepaire, 1934, showing a desk with curved front, fitted with similar palm legs, and p. 219 for a drawing of a low table with similar legs, and also an illustration of similar table fitted with bronze palm legs of this design.