Here we have a wide, deep blue-painted copper bowl. The blue color is slightly uneven giving the surface texture and slightly green oxidation showing through. With splayed out sides, it sits on top of a circular foot. The sides are stout and similar to an opening flower and overall are symmetrical in shape. In the center, a U-shaped petal sits between two elongated, pointed petals of the same height. The other side has the same design.

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	We acquired this object.
1915	Work on this object began.
1925	Work on this object ended.
2017	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
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Object ID #907130109

This is a bowl. It was designed by Marie Zimmermann. It is dated ca. 1920–30. Its medium is painted copper.

Zimmermann may have studied Tang dynasty footed metal dishes before creating this form, reduced to three lobes painted in a strong blue color that gives it a modern look while referencing the color of Chinese kingfisher feathers.

It is credited Courtesy of Leeds Art Foundation.

Centerpiece And Garniture

Centerpiece And Garniture
silver.
Jacqueline Loewe Fowler.
71.2016.1a/c

Vase
patinated copper.
Courtesy of Leeds Art Foundation.
39.2016.3

This silver bowl is monchrome with a thin yet wide unpolished body sitting juxtaposed on shiny, intricately designed feet. The bottom part of the feet support the bowl flat, inwardly curling tendrils and attach to longer, decorative piece with curling tendril motif. The longer portion of the leg hugs the bowls body in a slender arc, and then transitions into intricate animal form. The top of the decorative leg is a realistic bird's neck and head that creates two gentle arcs where the leg meets the bowl's body. The swan-like neck tapers upward and in thickness, its open beak with realistic eye and simple feathers along the top and bottom. The top of the head has a feather stretching to a circular knob, nearly meeting the top edge of the bowl's body.

Object ID #907214069
sterling silver.
Lent by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gift of Cecily E. Horton, 2014.814.
52.2016.4

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A painted zinc, rust-colored geometric vase, with a hexagonal foot, a bulbous mid section and long, fluted sides. Small, dropet shaped pieces of silver zinc can be found on the top inner section, most likely from age.

Object ID #907130135
painted zinc, original glass liner.
Private Midwest collection.
32.2016.4

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 9.5 × 38.7 × 17.8 cm (3 3/4 in. × 15 1/4 in. × 7 in.)

It has the following markings

M2 mark and model number 92 on bottom

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

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2oahbi/
Accession Number 39.2016.4
Object ID 907130109