The topmost part of this two-piece sterling, ivory and ebony candle set is scalloped and open and faces up, like a flower. On each candle cup is a monogram. Scalloped silver is then repeated but this time is facing downward and inward. Carved silver elements are above and below a vertically incised short length of ebony. Like its relative, the matching compote, this includes a small silver design with feathery curves and striated silver points that look something like a rather small loving cup. A wide piece of vertically carved ivory, one of which is quite cracked and yellowed, is above a silver element that has more feathery curves surrounding what looks like a squat pumpkin. This piece ends in silver components: more scalloping and scored balls with two little people or animals one on either side of each ball. Each candlestick sits on a wide, thin and flat round of silver.

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Pair Of Candlesticks From A Console Set, 1927

This is a Pair of Candlesticks from a Console Set. It was designed by Erik Magnussen. It is dated 1927. Its medium is sterling silver, ivory, and ebony.

Made two years after Erik Magnussen established a studio in New York and was hired by Gorham, this handmade set, with only Magnussen’s markings, reflects his Danish origins. The set was published in 1929 when exhibited by Arden Studios of the Decorators Club, a female group devoted to elevating public taste through small exhibitions.

It is credited Lent by Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from Jacqueline Loewe Fowler and the John P. Axelrod, B.A. 1968, Fund, 2012.61.1.1-.2.

The topmost part of this compote is wide and made of scalloped sterling. It allows for easy access to the contents. As we work our way down the compote there are two convex rings of silver that lead to a vertically carved, also convex, short length of ebony. The next lower part is a small silver design with feathers and points that looks something like a really small loving cup. Further down, there is a convex length of ivory, scored vertically like the ebony above, but longer. The ivory has yellowed in places and is above a silver element that has more feathery curves surrounding what almost looks like a squat pumpkin. This piece ends in silver components: more scalloping and scored balls with two little people or animals, one on either side of each ball. The compote sits on a wide, thin flat round of silver.

Compote From A Console Set, 1927
sterling silver, ivory, and ebony.
Lent by Yale University Art Gallery, Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, by....
65.2016.4

Wiener Werkstatte silver vase made in 1923. The upper two-thirds of the vase have a highly polished background and are embellished with applied and different-shaped leaves, flowers, and vines. The lip of the vase is flared and engraved with small short lines. The bottom third has been chased and fluted to serve as a stand for the upper part of the vase. It is far less polished than the top of the piece.

Vase (Austria)
chased, raised, cast, and applied silver.
Gift of Ely Jacques Kahn.
1962-227-2

Here we have a secretary desk constructed from lumber-core plywood with veneers of Macassar ebony, oak, poplar and mahogany. Its legs are capped with ivory with ivory stripes running up outer sides of front supports. On the bottom of the desk is a horizontal drawer accessed by beaded tassel pulls set in ivory mounts. The desk’s contents are accessed by a key inserted into a keyhole inscribed by inset oval of inlaid ivory. Closed in the first image, there is an accompanying second image where the top half is opened. The interior and writing surface is sheathed in deep oxblood leather. There are more ivory and tasseled-pulls and to provide access to two storage drawers and cabinet on the left side. To the right are open, squared spaces. A ring of rectangular ivory inlay runs around the upper perimeter of the cabinet.

Desk, Tibattant
macassar ebony, ivory, leather, aluminum leaf, silver, silk, oak, lumber-core....
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift,....
66.2016.1

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Raised, circular, large silver centerpiece bowl with a wide, graceful, outward-turned rim, supported by a center column composed of stylized, upward-curled leaves with small, interspersed silver balls in-between. The leaves surround a dark, vertical cluster of grapes centered inside the column, all on a stepped circular foot. The polished, gleaming surface is highlighted in the glossy reflections.

No. 196 Centerpiece Bowl
silver.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1984-134-1

This sterling and vermeil coffee service consists of a sugar, creamer, coffeepot and rhomboid-shaped tray. Each serving piece is also rhomboid in shape with periodic large triangles in gilded silver. The top knob of the coffeepot and sugar bowl are silver and ivory. There are also ivory inclusions on the coffeepot handle to prevent the heat of the coffee from making the handle too hot.

Cubic Coffee Service, 1927
silver with gilding and ivory.
Lent by Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, The Gorham Collection.....
51.2016.1a/d

Its dimensions are

30.48 x 12.07 cm (12 x 4 3/4 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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Accession Number 65.2016.3a,b
Object ID 907214277