Jean DUNAND (1877–1942). Ball-shaped vase with a narrow neck, made of black-patinated brass (with dents), with its original saucer. Signed on the bottom. Circa 1915. Height: 20 cm - Diameter: 19 cm Note: Jean Dunand, an artist of the Art Deco period, trained in sculpture in Switzerland before arriving in Paris in 1898, where he definitively turned his attention to the decorative arts and copperwork. He developed a significant body of work using lacquer techniques and actively participated in the major exhibitions of the era, notably the 1925 Decorative Arts Exhibition and the 1931 Colonial Exhibition. He later oversaw the interior decoration of the great ocean liners *L’Atlantique* and *Normandie*.