Acquired by John Woodman Higgins for the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1935
Deaccessioned by the museum, circa 1991
Sotheby's, New York, "20th Century Decorative Works of Art," June 12, 1998, lot 144
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Pavillon de L'Intransigeant, Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Cours-la-Reine, Paris, April-October 1925
Guillaume Janneau, Le Fer à l’Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Modernes, Paris, 1925, illustrated pl. 2
"Aux Arts Décoratifs," L’Intransigeant, Le Journal de Paris, no. 16395, June 25, 1925, illustrated p. 1
Helen Appleton Read,“The Exposition in Paris,” International Studio, no. 343, November 1925, illustrated p. 97
Sarah Morgan, Art Deco: The European Style, London, 1990, illustrated p. 169
Joan Kahr, Edgar Brandt: Art Deco Ironwork, Paris, 2010, pp. 105-6, figs. 149-51 for similar examples