Covered dish
Marie Zimmermann
ca. 1930 · Gilt silver, ivory, jade, and cinnabar · The American Wing
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.
- Artist
- Marie Zimmermann
- Date
- ca. 1930
- Medium
- Gilt silver, ivory, jade, and cinnabar
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Drs. Bruce Barnes and Joseph Cunningham, in honor of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2021
