cigarette-case
- Museum number
- 2000,0108.1
- Description
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Rectangular cigarette case, lacquered metal, decorated with viaduct in white eggshell lacquer on a black ground with grey cobbled detail and red cloud.
- Production date
- 1925-1930 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 122 millimetres
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Width: 82 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The use of oriental lacquer became the speciality of Paris artists such as Jean Dunand from the mid-1920's. Applied initially to furniture, vases and decorative objects, it was taken up by modernist jewellers such as Sandoz, Brandt, Templier and Fouquet for cigarette cases and other small scale works. This piece has a strikingly bold use of perspective which is characteristic of French modernist designs of the mid to late 1920's.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 2000
- Acquisition notes
- The piece was purchased by Samuel Beizer for the British Museum at the Pier Antiques Show in New York, and given jointly by Samuel Beizer and his wife, Laurel.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2000,0108.1
