Object Details
- Designer
- Elsa Tennhardt , American, b. Germany, 1889–1980
- Manufacturer
- E. & J. Bass Company, American, 1890–1930
- Description
- Hand mirror and hairbrush from silver vanity set with handles comprised of downward-pointing triangles. Mirror repeats this motif with a beveled piece of mirror glass while the hairbrush’s boar bristles spring from a similarly three-pointed plane.
- Credit Line
- Lent by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The John Axelrod Collection, 2014.1290.1-2
- designed 1928; made ca. 1928-30
- Accession Number
- 54.2016.1a,b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- metalwork
- Exhibitions
- Vanity Set: Hand Mirror and Hair Brush
- Medium
- Silverplate, mirror glass, boar bristles
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (Hand Mirror (approximate)): 1 × 14.6 × 27.6 cm (3/8 × 5 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
- H x W x D (Hair Brush (approximate)): 3.5 × 10.2 × 16.8 cm (1 3/8 in. × 4 in. × 6 5/8 in.)
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Exhibitions Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_54.2016.1a_b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46f3db532-efb4-418f-aff7-810dc843467d
