Nickeled metal spherical vase
Stamped "Desny Paris", "Made in France" and "Déposé" [Registered]
Paris, 1928.
Dimensions: height: 15 cm; width/depth: 18 cm
History : several exemplaries of this vase are in the Maharaja of Indore's modernist palace of Banik Bagh realized by the german architect Eckart Muthesius between 1930 and 1933.
Bibliography: R. Billé, L. Curtis, et al., catalog of the exhibition "Moderne Maharajah, un mécène des années 1930", Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, September 26th, 2019 - January 12th, 2020, ed. MAD, September 2019, p. 165 (same model in another size).
