JOSEPH MENDES DA COSTA. "Babij" A Grès Figure of a Chimpanzee, circa 1903. Marks: inscribed monogram and title. 8-1/8 inches...

Description

JOSEPH MENDES DA COSTA
"Babij" A Grès Figure of a Chimpanzee, circa 1903
Marks: inscribed monogram and title
8-1/8 inches (20.5 cm) high

PROVENANCE:
Glerum, Amsterdam, Furniture and Decorative Arts, June 19-20, 2005, lot 335.

LITERATURE:
Cf. H.P. Bremmer, Moderne Kunstwerken, Amsterdam, 1903, no. 9, p. 69;
Wendingen, no. 5/6, 1929, p. 10;
A.M. Hammacher, Mendes da Costa, de Geestelijke Boodschap der Beeldhouwkunst, Rotterdam, 1941, pp. 31 and 72, ill. 14;
Singer Museum, exh. cat., Leven in een Verzameling: Toegepaste Kunst 1890-1940 uit de Collectie Meentwijck, Waanders, 2000, p. 33, fig. 33;
M. Simon Thomas, ed., Nederlandse Art Nouveau en Art Deco Keramiek, 1880-1940, Collectie Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2001, p. 219, for similar examples of this model.



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