Lot Essay
This desk is recorded under number 1505 AR (Ancien Référencier)/1601 NR (Nouveau Référencier) in the Ruhlmann Archives, Musée des Années Trente, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris.
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A LADY'S DESK, CIRCA 1928
Details
EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
A LADY'S DESK, CIRCA 1928
rosewood, silvered-bronze, flanked on either side by a small drawer and a compartment with hinged door
29 ¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high, 39 in. (99 cm.) wide, 23 5/8 in. (60 cm.) deep
branded Ruhlmann
A LADY'S DESK, CIRCA 1928
rosewood, silvered-bronze, flanked on either side by a small drawer and a compartment with hinged door
29 ¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high, 39 in. (99 cm.) wide, 23 5/8 in. (60 cm.) deep
branded Ruhlmann
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 7 March 1987, lot 187.
Literature
F. Camard, Jacques Emile Ruhlmann, Paris, 2009, CD for a period photograph of another desk of this model.
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