Elsa Tennhardt and E. & J. Bass Company
Box
1927
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Silver, copper alloy, 5 5/16 × 4 5/8 in. (13.5 × 11.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Gretchen and Roger Redden, Baltimore
Object Number
2023.99
Lidded powder box from an Art Deco vanity set designed by Elsa Tennhardt in 1928. Silver-plated copper alloy. The box is triangular and the lid is decorated with graduating raisted triangle edges. 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
