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Door With Handle (France), 1925–26
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.
- Wall Maquette
- painted plywood.
- Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, John Stuart Gordon Gift,....
- 66.2016.10
- Two Necklaces And Two Bracelets, Giraffe
- blue and black lacquer and oréum (gold alloy).
- Lent by Siegelson, New York.
- 61.2016.9a/d
- Vase
- enamel, copper.
- Private Collection.
- 41.2016.6
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- Vase
- 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
Door With Handle (France), 1925–26; 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.
