Covered dish
The work of Marie Zimmermann was admired and celebrated during her lifetime, and it continues to attract attention today. Although trained in painting and sculpting, she was primarily a metalworker, who liked to say that she made "everything from tiaras to tombstones." This hammered silver vessel was given an antiqued gilded surface that provides a subtly glimmering backdrop for some of Zimmermann’s prized "found" objects, in this case four spherical cinnabar feet, a small jade disc, and, most obviously, a carved ivory netsuke figure of a man holding a drum and mallet. Zimmermann favored the model of incorporating these little objets into her designs, sometimes as the focus of the piece.
Artwork Details
- Title: Covered dish
- Maker: Marie Zimmermann (American, Brooklyn, New York 1879–1972 Punta Gorda, Florida)
- Date: ca. 1930
- Culture: American
- Medium: Gilt silver, ivory, jade, and cinnabar
- Dimensions: 5 × 5 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (12.7 × 14 × 9.5 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Drs. Bruce Barnes and Joseph Cunningham, in honor of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2021
- Object Number: 2021.228.8a, b
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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