Chryselephantine figure 'Hoop Dancer', 1900-15 – Ernst Seger

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Ernst Seger
Chryselephantine figure 'Hoop Dancer', 1900-15

H. 20.5 cm (total). Bronze, head and décolleté, hands and feet made of carved ivory, brass wire. Plinth signed: E. Seger (bossed). Black-gray marble base.

With two hoops. Provenance: Private collection West Germany, auction Quittenbaum 077/874, previously private collection Berlin.

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Estimate: 1,000 € - 1,500 €

178A - Art Nouveau - Art Deco
01. July 2025 at 3:00 PM CEST

Literature:

An EC certificate from the Department of Climate and Environmental Protection of the City of Munich is available, which allows the marketing of objects containing ivory within the European Union. Shayo, Statuettes of the Art Deco Period, Woodbridge 2016, p. 219; exh. cat. Von Jugendstil bis Art Deco, Schönheit in Elfenbein, Deutsches Elfenbein-Museum, Erbach 1998, p. 100 (text).

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Chryselephantine figure 'Hoop Dancer', 1900-15