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Literature: Yvanhoé Rambosson, "Les Artistes Décorateurs au Salon des Artistes Français," Art et Décoration, June 1922, p. 192
Jean Badovici, "Harmonies": Intérieurs de Ruhlmann, Paris, 1924, pl. 26 (for a gouache entitled "Salle Á Manger 1920")
Léon Moussinac, Croquis de Ruhlmann, Paris, 1924, pl. 4 (for Ruhlmann's sketch of the model)
Sarah Schleuning, Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior, New York, 2008, p. 58 (for the Badovici gouache)
Florence Camard, Ruhlmann, Paris, 2009, p. 140 (for the model in the bedroom of Fernande Cabonel) and p. 461 (for the model formerly in the collection of Geneviève and Pierre Hebey)
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Notes: Ordered by the family on March 12, 1929, the present and following lots are a superb and extremely rare pair of "potbellied" entre-deaux cabinets for the dining room. In a 1922 article on the 135th Salon la Société des Artistes Décorateurs, all of the published illustrations are taken at the Salon, except for a studio photograph provided by Maison Ruhlmann illustrating a predecessor to the model, in sycamore veneer and ebony marquetry, and in the exact shape except for the feet. The cabinet is staged in the typical Ruhlmann studio setting with a background curtain and a sculpture of a female head placed on top of the cabinet.
In the archives of the present collection, there is a diffrerent studio photograph of the model (fig. 1) staged in the exact same way, but in macassar ebony and ivory marquetry. The only difference between this example and the present pair is the presence of an additional ivory frieze along the demilune-shaped top. The back of this photograph is marked in pencil 2019. This might be the model in the collection of Geneviève and Pierre Hebey, sold at Camard in Paris on October 28, 1999, lot 11. There is also a design drawing of the model in the archives (fig. 2) where both the Ancienne and Nouveau referencier are noted.
In the 1933 certificates issued by Ruhlmann, the present pair are described as "Bahut (Ventru), modèle no. 2126, exemplaire no. 2-3."
