Elsa Tennhardt, E. & J. Bass Company
Comb
1927
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Elsa Tennhardt, E. & J. Bass Company
Comb
1927
Physical Qualities
Silver plate, copper alloy, glass, 8 × 1 7/16 in. (20.3 × 3.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Gretchen and Roger Redden, Baltimore
Object Number
2023.100
Comb from an Art Deco vanity set designed by Elsa Tennhardt in 1928. Silver-plated copper alloy, glass. The comb has a silver-plated spine with a graduated-triangular decoration and glass teeth colored to look like tortoiseshell. 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.
Skidmore Alumnae Quarterly, Fall 1962, Vol. XLI, No. 2, p. 22
Inscribed: See text entry