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GEORGES BASTARD (1881-1939) MEMBER OF THE UAM 3...

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GEORGES BASTARD (1881-1939) MEMBER OF THE UAM 3 butterflies, unique piece Exceptional circular box. Proof in carved and polished ivory. The lid with very finely carved and chiseled decoration in white mother-of-pearl and mother-of-pearl haliotis in intarsia. The base and the lid with stick patterns in mother-of-pearl haliotis. About 1925. Yellowing on the reverse side of the white mother-of-pearl plate. Signed G. BASTARD, on the back of the base. Height : 4 cm - Diameter : 9 cm Provenance : - Amédée Revet, Master ivory carver in Paris. Possible supplier of raw ivory to Georges Bastard and Yokohama O'Kin. - By descent.