Armand Albert RATEAU (1882-1938) - Lot 173

Armand Albert RATEAU (1882-1938) Hand mirror Bronze and ivory Signature "A.A.RATEAU / INVr". L : 32 cm. (some bronze lozenges missing on the reverse) CIC N°FR2302400139-K Provenance : -By descent from the family of Armand-Albert Rateau A similar example is kept at the Metropolitan Museum in New York under inventory number 25.170. Bibliography : -Joseph Breck. "Modern Decorative Arts: Some Recent Purchases." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 21 (February 1926), p. 38. -Penelope Hunter. "Art Deco: The Last Hurrah." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 30 (June-July 1972), p. 263. -Alastair Duncan. A. A. Rateau. Exh. cat. by DeLorenzo Gallery. New York, [1990], pp. 24, 32. -Jared Goss. French Art Deco. New York, 2014, pp. 179-80, 261, no. 50b, ill. (color, overall and detail).