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Art Deco Kneeling Nude Woman Sculpted in Green Painted Spelter as a Pair of Bookends 1931
REF: 3050 - 161021 / LA371123
£625
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Description
For sale are an elegant and decorative pair of vintage original British Art Deco green spelter bookends with a registered design from 1931/32.
- The pair of beautifully stylish Art Deco nude woman bookends are a superb example of the evocative style at the start of the 1930s.
- The registered design number Rd: 770949 researched at the British National Archives is from 1931/32.
- The stylish nude sculpture has a brilliant 1930s elegance with her hair styled in a chignon, a knot at the nape of the neck. This is a classic 1930s Art Deco hairstyle also shown on plaster bust sculpture we have for sale at W&W Antiques. They are also well modelled with good detail to the face/hair, body and legs.
- The bookends are a good size and in their own right provide beautiful sculptures evocative of the period and in a similar design vein to the well known and reproduced American Art Deco Frankart design pieces.
- These bookends are heavy at 1.81kg for each sculpture as a genuine Art Deco item from the period.
In short a really beautiful set of decorative Art Deco bookends offering great utility and elegant design aesthetic renowned in this era.
*The books in the last two images are included for scale and context only.
measurements
Height:
17 cm
Width:
12 cm
Depth:
10 cm
Weight:
1.81 kg
Weight per bookend
measurements
declaration
W&W Antiques has clarified that the Art Deco Kneeling Nude Woman Sculpted in Green Painted Spelter as a Pair of Bookends 1931 (LA371123) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 1931
declaration
condition
condition
Please consider the photographs and description as a great record of the condition of this antique item.