Design for a Pencil Holder
Object Details
- Designer
- Jean Elysée Puiforcat, French, 1897–1945
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Cylindrical holder drawn in plan and elevation. The upper lip decorated with a ring of studs indicated in yellow color pencil to be executed in vermeil. Underdrawing in graphite of pencil holder in golden section.
- Credit Line
- Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra
- 1942
- Accession Number
- 1995-164-5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- metalwork
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, yellow color pencil, graphite on cream tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 28.9 x 18.7 cm (11 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches), irregular
- made in
- France
- Mexico City, Mexico
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1995-164-5
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ee359e48-c45e-47c9-b7c7-f1a9c55bf44b
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