Armand-Albert Rateau, Pair of wall lights, designed for Jeanne Lanvin, Paris

circa 1924
Gilt bronze.
Each: 15.5 x 16 x 27.5 cm (6 1/8 x 6 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.)
Executed by Maison Baguès, Paris, France. Each impressed twice A.A.RATEAU/INVR/PARIS.

Provenance:
Private collection, France

Literature:
Yvonne Brunhammer, Le Style 1925, Paris, 1970s, p. 41
Alastair Duncan, A.A. Rateau, exh. cat., DeLorenzo Gallery, New York, 1990, p. 17
Franck Olivier-Vial and François Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau: un baroque chez les modernes, Paris, 1992, pp. 21, 23, 33
Hélène Guéné, Décoration et Haute Couture: Armand Albert Rateau pour Jeanne Lanvin, un autre Art Déco, Paris, 2006, p. 124