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  • We acquired this object.

1920

  • Work on this object began.

1930

  • Work on this object ended.

2016

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2025

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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.

  • 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)
  • 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.

  • Cache-pot
  • oxidized repoussé copper, colored lacquer.
  • Stephen E. Kelly/Kelly Gallery, New York.
  • 38.2016.4
  • Vase
  • enamel, copper.
  • Private Collection.
  • 41.2016.7
  • 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: 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.

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