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Vase

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 Anonymous as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated ca. 1925. Its medium is enamel, copper.

Jean Dunand’s mastery of enamel technique produced ethereal surfaces for all manner of forms, including this ovoid vase.

It is credited Private Collection.

Vase (France)
enameled copper.
1969-89-2

Jar (USA)
earthenware.
Gift by transfer from U.S.I.A. Office of Exhibitions Abroad via Renwick Gallery.
1982-38-4

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

Our curators have highlighted 3 objects that are related to this one.

Round African-themed vase made of enamel and copper. It has been enamelled in black, grey and red-orange. The designs on the vase are triangles, rectangles, squares and stripes. There is a raised lip at the opening of the vase.

Vase, ca. 1925
enamel, copper.
Private Collection.
41.2016.7

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

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: 35.6 × 33 × 33 cm (14 × 13 × 13 in.)

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/2oahfP/
Accession Number 41.2016.5
Object ID 907130371