Vase Table (Primary Title)
Bureau Vases Cabanel (no. 1507AR-1803NR) (Model Name)
Table (Former Title)
"Vase" Table (Former Title)

Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, French, 1879 - 1933 (Designer)
Ruhlmann et Laurent, French, 1919 - 1933 (Manufacturer)

designed 1915; made 1921
French
Decorative Arts
Furniture and Furnishings
Macassar ebony, mahagony, ivory, brass
Overall: 28 3/4 × 43 5/16 × 19 5/8 in. (73.03 × 110.01 × 49.85 cm)
85.132
Signed under table: "Ruhlmann"
Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis
(similar example) XIIth Salon des Societe des Artistes-Decorateurs, Paris, 1921;

"World of Art Deco", Minneapolis Inst. of Arts, 1971;

Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885-1945, Wolfsonian, 1995, cat. 159;


"L'Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989", Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, March 30-July 30, 1989;

"Cross-Currents of Modernism; Selections from the Sydney andFrances Lewis Collection", Bard Graduate Center, New York, Nov. 18, 1994-Feb. 26, 1995;

"Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885-1945", Wolfsonian Museum, Nov. 11, 1995-May 12, 1996; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 22 - Sept. 15, 1996; Minneapolis Inst. of Arts, Oct. 12, 1996-Jan. 5, 1997; Carnegie Museum, Feb. 15 - May 11, 1997;

"Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 10 - September 5, 2004; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, September 30, 2004 - December 12, 2005
Drawing by Ruhlmann of Vase Table in: Leon Moussinac,Croquis de Ruhlmann, Editions Albert Levy, Paris, ca. 1924, p. 26;

Drawing by Ruhlmann of Vase Table in Emmanuel Breon, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann. The designer's Archives, Furniture, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 52-53;

Drawing by Ruhlman of Vase Table in: Florence Camard, Ruhlman, Editions du Regards, p. 177;

Similar example in: Emmanuel Breon and Rosalind Pepall, Ruhlmann, Genius of Art Deco, Paris, Somogy, 2004, pp. 176-179, 272;

Drawing by Ruhlmann of Vase Table in: Jean Badovici, Harmonies. Interieurs de Ruhlmann, Editions Albert Morance, Paris, 1924, pl 38;

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