BACCARAT & GEORGES CHEVALIER (1882-1967) - Lot 406

BACCARAT & GEORGES CHEVALIER (1882-1967) Set of 5 modernist cut crystal dishes. Josephine Baker model. Signed below the Baccarat manufacture stamp. Circa 1943 History: This model, designed in the 1930s by Georges Chevalier, was named Joséphine Baker, after the artist commissioned it for her wedding to Jo Bouillon in 1947. Bibliography : Baccarat - Jean-Louis Curtis, éditions du Regard, Paris, 1991. Identical models reproduced on page 279 on an archive photograph taken around 1935. Glass - Art & Design ? XIXe-XXIe siècles, Volume 2 Yves Delaborde, ACR Editions, Paris, 2011. Identical model reproduced on page 28. Exhibition: Exposition de la Société des décorateurs français, 1943 ? Identical models were shown at this event. [5]