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This and 3 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Door With Handle.

Object Timeline

1925	Work on this object began.
1926	Work on this object ended.
1950	We acquired this object.
2014	We photographed this object.
2017	We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Object ID #18383415

This is a Door with handle. It was executor: Jean Dunand. It is dated 1925–26 and we acquired it in 1950. Its medium is carved, joined, and lacquered wood, eggshell, mother-of-pearl, gold leaf, cast bronze. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Having purchased a house on the North Shore of Long Island in 1924, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Guggenheim sought decorating help from their young British friend Rowland Burdon-Miller. At his recommendation, they commissioned doors and screens from Jean Dunand, the great French master of lacquer, and Séraphin Soudbinine, a Russian émigré and French sculptor—possibly the patrons’ first modern art commission.

It is credited Gift of Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim.

Painted plywood maquette, or a preliminary sketch, depicting a stylized forest scene with arched, rolling hills, jagged, leafy trees and a lone deer standing erect and looking upward. The overall color palette includes shades of grey and silver, charcoal accents, white highlights, and beige with acid-green accents on the animal. The elements in the scene are overlapping, with the deer centered horizontally and slightly toward the right side of the panel.

Object ID #907214323
painted plywood.
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, John Stuart Gordon Gift,....
66.2016.10

Set of jewelry displayed on a flat white background. It features two necklaces and two bracelets. The jewelry is made out of gold alloy with dashes of blue, green, and black lacquer creating a striped pattern. The necklaces are positioned on the upper right side. One of the necklaces is smaller in circumference and is positioned within the larger one in the photo creating double rings. The bracelets are positioned to the right of the necklace - one lower than the other. The bracelets are positioned separately not like the necklaces. The shapes are similar, having one slightly smaller than the other. All pieces are rigid. The necklaces have hook-fasten clasps that seamlessly blend.

Object ID #907214239
blue and black lacquer and oréum (gold alloy).
Lent by Siegelson, New York.
61.2016.9a/d

16 ½ inch tall vase with mottled white/pale grey on bottom half. There are slanted overlapping triangles on the upper half of the vase in various shades of grey and black. The top of the vase has a rim going around it.

Object ID #907130369
enamel, copper.
Private Collection.
41.2016.6

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A tall black lipped oval brass vase covered with a collage-like dappled pattern created by inlaid egg shell on a red lacquer ground.

Vase, ca. 1925
brass with coquille d’oeuf on red lacquer ground.
Stephen E. Kelly/Kelly Gallery, New York.
38.2016.5

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 271.2 × 65.9 × 7.6 cm (8 ft. 10 3/4 in. × 25 15/16 in. × 3 in.)

Cite this object as

Object ID #18383415; Executor: Jean Dunand (French, b. Switzerland, 1877–1942); carved, joined, and lacquered wood, eggshell, mother-of-pearl, gold leaf, cast bronze; H x W x D: 271.2 × 65.9 × 7.6 cm (8 ft. 10 3/4 in. × 25 15/16 in. × 3 in.); Gift of Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim; 1950-104-4

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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Accession Number 1950-104-4
Object ID 18383415