MAURICE DUFRÈNE (1876-1955) ARTISTE-DÉCORATEUR & LA MAISON MODERNE (FOUNDED IN 1899 BY JULIUS MEIER-GRAEFE) PUBLISHERGingko biloba, the model referenced 1583-1 by La Maison Moderne and designed circa [1901] Important oil lamp base. Proof in dark brown patinated bronze. The tank in polychrome enamelled copper. Circa 1900-1905. a very slight jump of enamel on the tank; the electric assembly installed later and not intrusive . Signed M. DUFRÈNE at the base of the foot. Height without the socket : 49 cmProvenance : Private collection, Paris . Bibliography : - La Maison Moderne - Documents sur l'Art Industriel au vingtième siècle - Éditions de La Maison Moderne, Paris, 1901 . Identical model reproduced on plate 16 (chapter lighting devices) in this commercial publication of the gallery of the rue des Petits-Champs in Paris. - Art et Industrie - January 1911. The drawing of our lamp reproduced under illustration n° 30 in the first part of the Répertoire d'Art décoratif moderne Les lampes (retracing the fifteen previous years in the field of modern lighting). - Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration - October 1900 to March 1901 (band VII). Identical model reproduced on page 104 - Julius Hoffmann jr. - Der modern stil 1899-1905 - Arnoldsche Publishers, 2006. Identical model reproduced on plate 44 (ill. 8). - Alastair Duncan - The Paris Salons 1895-1914- Volume V : Objets d'art & Metalware - Edition Antique Collectors' Club, 1998. Identical model reproduced on page 227.