Year End Holiday Prestige Sale

French Art Nouveau Silvered Metal Female Figure Lighter, c. 1920

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Start price: $125

Estimated price: $200 - $2,000

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Description

Keywords: Silvered metal, desktop smoking accessory, globe-form, Belle Epoque era, decorative arts, tobacciana, dancer motif, 20th-century Continental, novelty object

Figural desk lighter modeled as a stylized woman leaning against a large globe on a circular base, in a French Art Nouveau idiom, circa 1920 (or earlier). Silvered/white-metal construction with a hinged spherical lid that opens to the lighter compartment (mechanism not tested). Unsigned.


Measurements: 8 x 4 x 3 in. (20.3 x 10.2 x 7.6 cm.) approx

Condition: Overall good. Hinge needs to be re-attached

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