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1923

  • Work on this object began.

1933

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2017

2024

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Vase, ca. 1928

This is a vase. It was designed by Maurice Marinot. It is dated ca. 1928. Its medium is blown and acid-etched glass.

Marinot’s mask-like glass vases directly reference African forms, as does Man Ray’s photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse, which contrasts the soft, porcelainlike quality of the dancer’s skin with the angular ebony of an African mask. Man Ray’s study may have been the result of a collaboration with his friend, American set designer George Sakier, who lived in Paris, owned the mask, and might have even staged the shot. Sakier, after his return to the US designed glass for Fostoria, as seen later in the exhibition.

It is credited Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of C. M. de Hauke, 1929.114.

  • Head: Das Wasser
  • earthenware.
  • Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1929.438.
  • 48.2016.5
  • Vase, The Seasons
  • earthenware.
  • Lent by Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 964.1932.
  • 48.2016.4

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 22 × 16.6 cm (8 11/16 × 6 9/16 in.)

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

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