Brass Ashtray on Stand with Curved Handle. French Work in the Style.

This salon ashtray features a polished brass half-sphere bowl, suspended in a wavy handle whose upper crossbar is shaped with scallops and points. The whole is topped with a covered vase-shaped handle, placed on a fluted pedestal. The tapered shaft, accented with a baluster ring, rests on a circular base with a rounded edge adorned with a collar of radiating flutes. This neoclassical vocabulary—antique covered vase, flutes, tapered shaft—applied to a smoking object is characteristic of French productions from the 1950s, when the standing ashtray accompanied club chairs and sofas in elegant salons and halls. Condition report: Overall good condition. Brass with a beautiful homogeneous golden patina, healthy bowl. Stable structure. A salon object that has become a decorative piece in its own right, perfect next to an armchair, or repurposed as a standing catch-all in an entryway.