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

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Vase, ca. 1925

This is a vase.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Stephen E. Kelly//Kelly Gallery, New York as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated ca. 1925. Its medium is brass with coquille d’oeuf on red lacquer ground.

This vase by Jean Dunand, on view in the 1925 Paris exposition, is a masterpiece of the designer’s eggshell lacquer technique, one that he developed after studying with Seizo Sugawara, a Japanese lacquer master who had immigrated to Paris earlier in the century.

It is credited Stephen E. Kelly/Kelly Gallery, New York.

Door With Handle (France)

Door With Handle (France)
carved, joined, and lacquered wood, eggshell, mother-of-pearl, gold leaf,....
Gift of Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim.
1950-104-1

Door With Handle (France)

Object ID #18383415
carved, joined, and lacquered wood, eggshell, mother-of-pearl, gold leaf,....
Gift of Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim.
1950-104-4

Textile, Chrysanthemums

Textile, Chrysanthemums
silk, artificial gold thread; twill based jacquard weave.
Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2003.42.
48.2016.16

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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

Vase
enamel, copper.
Private Collection.
41.2016.5

Gourd-shaped repoussé cache-pot (decorative planter) with geometrical red and black lacquer decorations. The planter is made of oxidized copper and therefore its surface appears brown and matte; however, it is covered with vividly colored, precisely executed geometric patterns in red and black lacquer. The patterning emphasizes the planter’s nearly spherical form. The vertical ribs, similar to the meridians of a sphere, are hammered into relief and decorated with alternating geometric designs, with, either filled-out black triangles and empty red triangles, or red and black concentrically arranged circles and curves and alternating, cascading line segments. The maximum circumference of the planter is highlighted by horizontal black lines alternating with red vertical segments; the decorative elements are simpler below these lines and taper off towards the bottom of the vase. The circular rim and inside of the vase are red and shiny. The transition between the rim and ribs is given by a black stripe below the rim, and clusters of five equidistant vertical line segments above each rib. The sophisticated, beautifully executed patterns remind both of African motifs and modern art.

Cache-pot, ca. 1920
oxidized repoussé copper, colored lacquer.
Stephen E. Kelly/Kelly Gallery, New York.
38.2016.4

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 26 × 15.9 cm (10 1/4 × 6 1/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Signed JEAN DUNAND in red lacquer underneath.

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/2oahei/
Accession Number 38.2016.5
Object ID 907130283