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Charles-Maurice Favre-Bertin / French Art Nouveau Bronze frog bookends c. 1925
CHARLES-MAURICE FAVRE-BERTIN (1887-1961) FRANCE
Frog bookends c. 1925
Patinated brown with green highlights cast bronze, black Portoro marble plinth bases
Marks: M.BERTIN, MADE IN FRANCE
H: 5″
Charles-Maurice Favre-Bertin / French Art Nouveau Bronze frog bookends c. 1925
GILBERT ROHDE (1894-1944) USA
HERMAN MILLER CLOCK CO. Zeeland, Mich.
Showroom sample clock and thermometer/barometer c. 1933
Block of seven stacked wood varieties with three brushed chrome bars, chromium-plated rings and original convex glass clock faces
For related Rohde clock designs: American Modern 1925-1940: Design for a New Age, J. Stewart Johnson (New York: Harry Abrams & Am. Federation of Arts, 2000) p. 142-43 The Machine Age in America: 1918-1941, Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne H. Pilgram and Dickran Tashjian, exhibit. Cat. (New York: The Brooklyn Museum and Harry N. Abrams, 1986), vintage Herman Miller catalog.
H: 5 ½” L: 10 ¼” x W: 2 ½”