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
Date
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.)
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_54.2016.1a_b