Gong
Attributed to Piet Regenspurg Dutch
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This gong typifies the expressionistic style of a group of designers known as the Amsterdam School, whose work evolved as a reaction against the rationalism that had dominated Dutch design in the 1910s. The Amsterdam School drew inspiration from a wide range of sources: European Art Nouveau and Jugendstil design, art from the Dutch colonies in Indonesia, and traditional Dutch craftsmanship. For this gong with ornamentation suggesting sea creatures, Regenspurg looked particularly to the work of the seventeenth-century Dutch silversmiths Paulus and Adam van Vianen, which is characterized by the use of swirling, molten-looking forms.
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