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LAMPE DE TABLE DE VOITURE-RESTAURANT Bronze, the fluted shaft topped by a bow decorated with acanthus leaves, on a circular base adorned with gadroons and fluting, encircled by a frieze of water leaves. Truncated metal shade. V.R. (restaurant car) serial numbers 2749 to 2773. 1926. Original pink pleated silk trim. Electrically mounted (to standard). Height. 56 cm; Diameter ; 27 cm. BIBLIOGRAPHY. . Luxury trains. Splendour, elegance & extravagance, ACC Art Books UK, 2023, p. 52. . Legendäre Luxuszüge - 24 stilvolle Traumreisen, Frederking & Thaler, 2023, p. 52. . La folie des trains de luxe, Editions EPA - Hachette, Paris 2022, reproduced on p. 52. . Treni fra arte, grafica e design, exhibition catalog M.A.X. Museo, Chiasso, Switzerland, Skira, 2021, p. 213 and 216. . Jean des Cars, Jean-Paul Caracalla, L'Orient-Express, un siècle d'aventures ferroviaires, Denoël, 1984, p. 78. . Jean des Cars, Jean-Paul Caracalla, Le Train Bleu et les Grands Express de la Riviera, Denoël, 1988, p. 77.