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Bookend

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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1925-1935

GUSN

GUSN-62103

Description

Black bookend with a single gold motif of small triangles and bars; one piece bent at right angles

Details

Descriptive Terms

bookends
steel (alloy)
Bookend
Steel
Bookend

Associated Building

Original to Gropius House (Lincoln, Mass.),

Maker

Soennecken (Manufacturer)

Location of Origin

Germany?

Dimensions

4 3/4 (H) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Ise Gropius

Accession Number

1984.317.1

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