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Art Deco Bowl

Artist Édouard Cazaux (French, 1889 - 1974)

CultureFrench

Dateca. 1930

MediumCeramic

DimensionsOverall: 2 1/4 x 9 in. (5.7 x 22.9 cm)

InscribedIncised on bottom: "Cazaux".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number87.255

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 231

DescriptionBowl with a ruffled lip, interior and exterior decorated with a band of nude female figures in white against a gray background with stylized green plants on brown stems. Bottom inside and rim of gold.

Published ReferencesAlain Lesieutre, THE SPIRIT AND SPLENDOUR OF ART DECO, (Paddington Press Ltd.: New York, 1974), p. 200