Elsa Tennhardt and E. & J. Bass Company
Atomizer
1927
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Physical Qualities
Silver plate, copper alloy, fabric, plastic, 7 × 3 1/8 × 2 7/8 in. (17.8 × 7.9 × 7.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Gretchen and Roger Redden, Baltimore
Object Number
2022.29
Perfume atomizer from an Art Deco vanity set designed by Elsa Tennhardt in 1928. Silver-plated copper alloy, fabric, plastic. The atomizer, shaped like a triangle, rests on its narrowest point on a triangular base. A fabric pump is attached to the top. The design evokes both French Cubism and Russian Constructivist styles.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2022; Roger Duffy (1932-2008) and Gretchen Matilda Sause Redden (b. 1936), Baltimore, MD
Stern, Jewel, Tucker, Kevin W. and Venable, Charles L. "Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design," Yale University Press, 2005, p. 72, fig. 3.20.
Inscribed: See text entry
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 02
