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Gorham Manufacturing Company

Design for Compote EM87, 1927

Description

Maker

  • Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1831-present, American
  • Erik Magnussen, 1884-1961, Danish, designer

Title

Design for Compote EM87

Year

1927

Medium

Pen and ink with graphite underdrawing on tracing paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • graphite,
  • ink,
  • tracing paper

Dimensions

33 x 29.8 cm (13 x 11 11/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

"EJJ" and "F / Y S" in ink in upper left corner. "EM. 87-" in ink in lower left corner of drawing. ".MARCH. 10. 27." in ink in lower right corner of drawing. In ink around finial of compote, "TURN" "ivory turn" "11/16"" "LINKS CHASED 1/32" WIDE" "TURN". Around top of lid, below finial "24 LINES CHASED / 1/32" WIDE." "24 LINES CHASED 1/16 WIDE" "1 1/8 032 / TURN". To right of body, "8 1/4 032" "WIRE OxO / Ox2"and "8 1/4 036". To left of body, "24 LINES / CHASED 3/32" WIDE". To right of stem, "WIRE 4x5" "2" 026" "TURN FROM BAR STOCK" "IVORY" "TURN FROM BAR STOCK" "2 1/4 040" "TURN FROM BAR STOCK" and "4"040". To left of stem, "8 LINES CUT / 1/16" WIDE." "24 LINES / CHASED IN / GROUPS OF / THREE 1/16" / WIDE" and "24 LINES / CHASED 1/16" WIDE". To right of base, "WIRE 0x1". In pencil in lower right corner, perpendicular, "19" circled and "18".

Type

  • Design,
  • Architectural and Design Works on Paper

Credit

Gift of Lenox, Incorporated

Object Number

2005.118.52

Projects & Publications

Publications

American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Design for Compote EM87 with the accession number of 2005.118.52. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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