Covered dish

Marie Zimmermann American

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Although trained in painting and sculpting, the multi-talented artist Marie Zimmermann was primarily a metalworker, who liked to say that she made "everything from tiaras to tombstones." This striking covered dish—at once simple and opulent—represents a type of vessel favored by the artist, that is, a shape reproduced in different iterations to achieve very different effects. Several dishes of this same profile are known, but due to their varied materials and embellishments, they look completely different. The luscious gilding on the present covered dish is smartly offset by an elaborate silver filigree disc that serves as a finial. Conjuring a lacy silver hubcap, it is one of a wide range of "found" objects that Zimmermann incorporated into her work

Covered dish, Marie Zimmermann (American, Brooklyn, New York 1879–1972 Punta Gorda, Florida), Gilded copper, silver, and ivory, American

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Covered dish, Marie Zimmermann (American, Brooklyn, New York 1879–1972 Punta Gorda, Florida), Gilded copper, silver, and ivory, American
Covered dish, Marie Zimmermann (American, Brooklyn, New York 1879–1972 Punta Gorda, Florida), Gilded copper, silver, and ivory, American

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