Adornment
Plaquette
1928 (struck)
1928 (struck)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
The Paris jeweller, La Gerbe d’Or (The Golden Sheaf) presented its 1929 calendar suspended from this plaquette.
In the Art Deco period, fashion and the decorative arts exploited a taste for the exotic and sensual. One aspect of Art Deco was a revival of Neo-classical art. Its sparse, simple clarity appealed to designers and artists trying to reduce images to their essential form.
This medal depicts a woman dancer with a veil. In the early decades of the 20th century, as a result of the changes in production and purpose, medals were no longer so closely tied to their traditional functions of commemoration and reward, and French medals could now be decorative objects in their own right.
In the Art Deco period, fashion and the decorative arts exploited a taste for the exotic and sensual. One aspect of Art Deco was a revival of Neo-classical art. Its sparse, simple clarity appealed to designers and artists trying to reduce images to their essential form.
This medal depicts a woman dancer with a veil. In the early decades of the 20th century, as a result of the changes in production and purpose, medals were no longer so closely tied to their traditional functions of commemoration and reward, and French medals could now be decorative objects in their own right.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Adornment (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Bronze, struck, uniface |
| Brief description | Plaquette, bronze, a veiled woman-dancer, by Marcel Renard (1892-1974), French, 1928 |
| Physical description | Uniface square medal, showing a veiled dancer. |
| Style | |
| Credit line | Given by Professor and Mrs J. Hull Grundy |
| Object history | Given by Professor J. Hull Grundy and Mrs. Ann Hull Grundy, in 1978. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | The Paris jeweller, La Gerbe d’Or (The Golden Sheaf) presented its 1929 calendar suspended from this plaquette. In the Art Deco period, fashion and the decorative arts exploited a taste for the exotic and sensual. One aspect of Art Deco was a revival of Neo-classical art. Its sparse, simple clarity appealed to designers and artists trying to reduce images to their essential form. This medal depicts a woman dancer with a veil. In the early decades of the 20th century, as a result of the changes in production and purpose, medals were no longer so closely tied to their traditional functions of commemoration and reward, and French medals could now be decorative objects in their own right. |
| Bibliographic reference | Fisher, Wendy, French Medal Design in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco Periods, London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 2000. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | A.149-1978 |
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| Record created | January 22, 2004 |
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