Art Deco lamp featuring a seated female

Art Deco lamp featuring a seated female.

An Art Deco sculpture of a seated woman holding a sphere in one hand and lying on an alabaster base which contains the light. Finely detailed and cast in spelter this is a beautiful original piece. French circa 1930. Rewired and tested. In excellent original condition.

Art Deco was named after the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts held in Paris in 1925. It was the successor to and a reaction against art nouveau. Seen in furniture, pottery, textiles, jewellery, and glass it was also a notable style of cinema and hotel architecture.
Its chief difference from art nouveau is the influence of cubism which gives art deco design generally a more fragmented, geometric character. However, imagery based on plant forms, and sinuous curves remained in some art deco design, for example that of Clarice Cliff.
Art deco also varied in its influences, taking inspiration from ancient Egyptian art, Aztec and other ancient Central American art. It also drew on the modern architecture and design of the Bauhaus, and of architects such as Le Corbusier and Mies van de Rohe.

Approximately 37 centimetres long, 11 centimetres deep and 28 centimetres high.

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