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Elsa Tennhardt and E. & J. Bass Company

Vanity Set

1927

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Vanity Set

1927

Physical Qualities Silver plate, glass, Tray: 14 3/16 × 7 in. (36 × 17.8 cm.) Brush: 9 × 4 9/16 in. (22.9 × 11.6 cm.) Atomizer: 7 × 3 1/8 × 2 7/8 in. (17.8 × 7.9 × 7.3 cm.) Mirror: 10 13/16 × 7 in. (27.5 × 17.8 cm.) Powder box: 5 5/16 × 4 5/8 in. (13.5 × 11.7 cm.) Comb: 8 × 1 7/16 in. (20.3 × 3.7 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Gretchen and Roger Redden, Baltimore
Object Number 2022.28-30; 2023.98-100
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

Designer

Elsa Tennhardt

1898–1979

American, born Germany, 1899-1980
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Manufacturer

E. & J. Bass Company

1889–1929

American, c.1890-1930
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