Imperial Door
Object Details
- Producer
- Lacloche Frères, French, founded 1901
- Manufacturer
- Strauss, Allard & Meyer, French, active 1920-35
- Description
- Vanity case in the form of two doors, with red and black lacquer, the front featuring two circular door-handle motifs of carved onyx and coral studded with diamonds, supporting diamond-set rigns, the base accented by a band of diamonds, with diamond thumbpiece; interior fitted with two mirrors and two compartments
- Credit Line
- Lent by Private Collection
- ca. 1924
- Accession Number
- 13.2016.29
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- containers
- Exhibitions
- Object Name
- Vanity Case
- Type
- Vanity Case
- Medium
- Red and black lacquer, carved onyx, coral, diamonds, mirrored plate glass, gold, platinum
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 8.3 × 4.8 × 1.7 cm (3 1/4 × 1 7/8 × 11/16 in.)
- made in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Exhibitions Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_13.2016.29
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq455501af6-bf56-4d11-afd5-587e201537c1
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