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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Wastebasket
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Wastebasket

Manufacturer Genet & Michon
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1925
MediumPressed glass
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
Overall, Rim: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm)
Base: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
InscribedPressed relief block letters on bottom: "Genet & Michon/France". All underlined.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.6373
Not on view
DescriptionWastebasket of pressed glass. Cylindrical faint gray/lavender tinted glass. Six angular designed monkeys irregularly placed in various poses in high relief. Background frosted design of stylized banana palm leaves and trunks.

Published ReferencesArwas, GLASS: ART NOUVEAU TO ART DECO, 1987 ed., pg. 153. Cappa, 100 ANS D'ART VERRIER EN EUROPE Catalog, for Luxembourg 1983 show, pg. 136. B. Hillier, ART DECO, pg. 133, "P. Genet & L. Michon, Paris". R. & L. Grover, CARVED AND DECORATED EUROPEAN ART GLASS, pg. 335, pg. 194, ill.
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
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