René DEFLANDRE (19th - 20th) - Lot 5

René DEFLANDRE (19th - 20th) Music stand in carved and molded cherry wood, decorated in orange wood with two young women forming a foot, one reading and the second holding a long fan. It opens at the top with two doors surmounting a shelf, with four central compartments and two side compartments in the center. The four cambered legs are joined by a shelf and finished with openwork musical notes. The pediment is decorated with a pan flute on a background of laurel, oak and reed branches. Art nouveau work 171 x 68 x 35 cm Exhibition : - Exposition Universelle, section de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts et des Sciences industrielles de Toulouse, 1900, Paris Bibliography : - Théodore Lambert, Meubles de style moderne à l'Exposition Universelle de 1900, Editions Charles Schmidt, Paris, 1900, our model referenced as n°7 and reproduced on plate 39. - Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Volume III: Furniture, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1996, our model reproduced on p. 549.