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Footed Iron Box

ZUL 17 | Spain, Eibar | 1920's

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Title: Footed Iron Box

Date: 1920's

Location: Spain, Eibar

Materials: iron, gold and silver damascene

Dimensions: 5.8 x 11.7 x 9.6 cm

Accession Number: ZUL 17

Other Notes:

This is a small iron box for holding cigarettes. It has a flat hinged lid and four bun feet, and is damascened overall with the familiar elements of renacimiento style, apart from the novelty on the front of a grotesque human head surmounted by a bowl of fruit. The lid contains a large panel outlined by two opposing C-scrolls, which enclose an obviously Japanese scene of two herons standing in the water at a lake’s edge. In the foreground are rushes and cat’s-tails, and two volcanoes occupy the horizon. Cherry-branches hang from above the two birds. The decoration of the lid, thematically at odds with the remainder of the ornamentation, represents a brief flirtation with oriental themes in Eibar during the 1920s. The trend was not long-lived, but elements from such scenes appeared on a variety of objects during this period.

Bibliography:

J. D. Lavin (ed.), The Art and Tradition of the Zuloagas: Spanish Damascene from the Khalili Collection, Oxford 1997, cat. 57, p. 166.

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