id: 156112
accession number: 1991.45
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updated: 2025-02-09 04:46:52.354000
Tea Table, c. 1907. Carlo Bugatti (Italian, 1856–1940). Inlaid wood (mahogany?), cast and gilded bronze mounts, inlays of ivory or bone, metal, and mother-of-pearl (marine mussels or pearl oysters); overall: 71.5 x 67.1 x 41.3 cm (28 1/8 x 26 7/16 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1991.45
title: Tea Table
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creation date: c. 1907
creation date earliest: 1902
creation date latest: 1912
current location: 001A ArtLens Exhibition
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
copyright:
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culture: France, Paris
technique: inlaid wood (mahogany?), cast and gilded bronze mounts, inlays of ivory or bone, metal, and mother-of-pearl (marine mussels or pearl oysters)
department: Decorative Art and Design
collection: Furniture
type: Furniture and woodwork
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CREATORS
* Carlo Bugatti (Italian, 1856–1940) - cabinetmaker
active in France after c. 1902.
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measurements: Overall: 71.5 x 67.1 x 41.3 cm (28 1/8 x 26 7/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
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inscription: signed in ligature in white metal inlay on central shelf: Bugatti.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Notable Acquisitions
opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00
Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).
title: Bugatti
opening date: 1999-07-18T00:00:00
Bugatti. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-September 19, 1999).
title: Carlo Bugatti
opening date: 2001-04-09T00:00:00
Carlo Bugatti. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (organizer) (April 9-July 15, 2001).
title: Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique
opening date: 2008-10-19T04:00:00
Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2008-January 18, 2009); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 7-May 31, 2009).
title: Artlens Exhibition 2019
opening date: 2019-06-11T04:00:00
Artlens Exhibition 2019. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Possibly exhibited at the Galerie Hebrard, Paris, France (1907).', 'opening_date': '1907-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Possibly exhibited at the Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna, Turin, Italy (May 10-November 10, 1902).", 'opening_date': '1902-05-10T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
First owned by Mrs. Anna Blake [d. 1956] who took it to Cape Town, South Africa.
date: c. 1907-c. 1956
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Inherited by her son Robert da Costa Blake.
date: c. 1956-1965
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His sale Kirkcaldzs, Cape Town, South Africa, 24 May 1965, lot 34.
date: 1965
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Private collection, South Africa
date: until c. 1991
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(Galerie Moderne, Ltd., London)
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1991-
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RELATED WORKS
id: 156113
Salver, c. 1907. Carlo Bugatti (Italian, 1856–1940), Adrien-Aurélien Hebrard (French, 1866–1937). Gilt silver and ivory; overall: 14.6 x 33 cm (5 3/4 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1991.46
relationship:
id: 150156
Tea and Coffee Service, c. 1907. Carlo Bugatti (Italian, 1856-1940), Adrien-Aurélien Hebrard (French, 1866-1937). Gilt silver and ivory; The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection 1980.74
relationship:
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CITATIONS
L'Art Decoratif 25, no. 1 (June 1911).
page number: Mentioned P 307
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=1514270
Duncan, J. Alastair. "The Silver of Carlo Bugatti," The Magazine Antiques 136, no. 6, (December 1989): 1344-55.
page number: Reproduced P 157
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=item-global&doc_library=CMA01&doc_number=000001278&year=&volume=&sub_library=CMA
Hawley, Henry. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 82
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319
Hawley, Henry. "Some Furniture and Silver of Carlo Bugatti." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 5 (1992): 130-43.
page number: Reproduced: cover, p. 137-39; Mentioned: p. 130-43
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161359
Hawley, Henry H., Véronique Fromanger Des Cordes, and Mickey Mishne. Bugatti. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
page number: Mentioned & reproduced P 27, cat. no. 40, fig. 39A-B
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=41002835
May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: Mentioned & reproduced PP 55-6
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=50820863
Massé, Marie-Madeleine. Carlo Bugatti au Musée d'Orsay: catalogue sommaire illustré du fonds d'archives et des collections. Paris, France: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001.
page number: Exh. Cat. No. 139, Pg. 41; Repr. Pg. 41
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Fromanger, Véronique. Rembrandt Bugatti Sculpteur: Répertoire Monographique. Paris: L'Amateur, 2009.
page number: Mentioned P 8, fig. 69
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=537862059
Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, and Jeannine J. Falino. Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
page number: Mentioned & reproduced PP 35-6, 57, 324-5, cat. no. 9
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=230187932
Piña, Leslie A. Furniture in History, 3000 B.C.-2000 A.D. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2010.
page number: Mentioned P 30
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=268788668
Franklin, David, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with, New York, NY: Scala Publishers, 2012.
page number: Reproduced & Discussed: Pgs. 295-295
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=813973055
Bidwell, Frederick E., and Leslie Cade. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014.
page number: Reproduced & Discussed: Pg. 144
url:
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