Lot 245
  • 245

CLAIRE JEANNE ROBERTE COLINET 'EGYPTIAN DANCER' GILT BRONZE AND IVORY ON ONYX BASE, CIRCA 1930

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 AUD
bidding is closed

Description

  • CLAIRE JEANNE ROBERTE COLINET 'EGYPTIAN DANCER' GILT BRONZE AND IVORY ON ONYX BASE, CIRCA 1930
  • 34.5 cm high
the young semi draped female wearing an egyptian head dress with enamelled decoration, posed with her leg raised and one arm outstretched before her, on a tiered onyx base



Signed to base Cl. J. R. Colinet

Condition

signature clear; repair to base of onyx plinth, and some small frits to edges of plinth; gilding, patination and enamel decoration in good order; ivory has two darkened vertical hairlines to supporting right leg; multiple darkened hairlines of varying length to torso, arms, face, raised left leg and left hand
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