Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Lot 32TP
Armand-Albert Rateau (French, 1882-1938); A Set of Six Art Deco Dining Chairs FOUR STAMPED 'A.A.RATEAU' AND NUMBERED; CIRCA 1928
25 October 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£30,000 - £50,000
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Armand-Albert Rateau (French, 1882-1938); A Set of Six Art Deco Dining Chairs
FOUR STAMPED 'A.A.RATEAU' AND NUMBERED; CIRCA 1928
a sweeping sledge shape to each back panel, curved legs with carved lotus flowers to each foot; four signed chairs in amaranth wood, two matching accompanying unsigned chairs in mahogany
80.5 x 45 x 50 cms (31¾ x 17¾ x 19¾ in.) (6)
a sweeping sledge shape to each back panel, curved legs with carved lotus flowers to each foot; four signed chairs in amaranth wood, two matching accompanying unsigned chairs in mahogany
80.5 x 45 x 50 cms (31¾ x 17¾ x 19¾ in.) (6)
Footnotes
Provenance (for amaranth chairs);
The four amaranth chairs were commissioned for a private mansion on rue Raffet in Paris around 1928 and have since remained in the same family's collection. Previously offered by Fraysse Auctioneers, Paris, December 3, 2014.
Provenance (for mahogany chairs);
Jacques Verdier, Paris
Literature;
Franck Olivier-Vial and François Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1992, p. 159, for a variant of the chairs.