New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Cabinet

Maker Jean Dunand (Swiss sculptor and japanner, 1877-1942, active in France)

CultureFrench

Dateca. 1925

MediumLacquered Wood | Egg shell

DimensionsOverall: 60 1/2 x 18 x 36 in. (153.7 x 45.7 x 91.4 cm)

InscribedLabel on back of shipper (?) "Camard-Dirner"

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number77.1005

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 119, Case 57

DescriptionOak carcass lacquered brown with large half circles depicting hills and a river of silver lacquer. A large stylized deer is depicted of darker brown lacquer and inlaid egg shells. Shells are also inlaid in some of the circular stylized hills. Cabinet is tall and slightly bombe with a single door and two shelves inside. Four corner supports run the length of the cabinet and form the out-curved tapered feet. No visible signature.