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4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2020
Buffet with Vitrine
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2020
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2020

Buffet with Vitrine

Manufacturer Louis Majorelle (French, 1859-1926)
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1900
MediumBronze, mixed woods, and glass
Dimensions95 3/4 × 64 × 21 3/4 in. (243.2 × 162.6 × 55.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.1149
On View
Not on view
DescriptionCabinet in two sections. Lower has two drawers under freize inlaid with branches of leaves and seed pods. Bronze handles in the form of goose heads with a snake in its' bill. Below drawers is a two door section. Doors are inlaid with geese and branches of leaves. Base inlay matches drawers. Upper section supported on each side by shaped panels inset with open work in the form of snails. The upper super structure contains a glass fronted vitrine and an open shelf above. Frame of vitrine inlaid to match drawer below. Restored Winter 1982.

Label TextLouis Majorelle French, 1859–1926 Buffet with Vitrine, ca. 1900 Bronze, mixed woods, and glass Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.1149 Published ReferencesAlastair Duncan, LOUIS MAJORELLE: MASTER OF ART NOUVEAU DESIGN, (Thames & Hudson: London, 1991), plate 27 (color).
Image captured from the NEH Myers Conservation Survey by Carey Howlett.
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4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2020
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Image captured from the NEH Myers Conservation Survey by Carey Howlett. Sized and color-correc…
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