Jean-Michel Frank & Christian Bérard, “Signe de la terre” lamp

Jean-Michel Frank (1895-1941) & Christian Bérard (1902-1949)

"Signe de la terre" lamp
Circa 1935

Lamp in black-painted wood with a tronconic bole in which comes to insert a cylinder.
It is decorated on two faces of a character by the artist Christian Bérard.
The title of the model "Signe de la terre" is a reference to the chinese symbolic ; the round form "bi" is the sky and the "cong" for the tronconic shape is the earth.

Total height 41 cm (20 in)
Lampshade diameter 30 cm (11 3⁄4 in)
Lamp itself H 18 x 7,5 x 7,5 cm (7 in x 2 3⁄4 x 2 3⁄4 in)

Provenance:
- Private collection, Paris, 16th disctrict, France, where there were several other Jean-Michel Frank pieces.

Literature:
- Pierre-Emmanuel Martin Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, Ed. Norma, Paris, 2006, pp. 8, 281, 282, 339 for the model.
- Diego Sanchez, Jean-Michel Frank, Ed. du Regard, pp 72 ; 132 for the model.