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Telephone pad holder
Peter Muller-Munk (American, born in Germany, 1904 – 1967)
about 1932
Object Place: New York, New York
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 1 x 14 x 18.4 cm (3/8 x 5 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
The John Axelrod Collection
Accession Number2014.1416
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver
DescriptionThe rectangular telephone pad holder, which is oriented vertically, is solid silver and has a banded border. The holder is decorated in relief with a smaller rectangle that is also delineated by a banded border and divided horizontally into four sections. The first and third sections have two raised ridges which arc into two interconnected, lowercase m's, the smaller set within the larger. The second and fourth sections are divided into four chevron-patterned vertical columns, and are bisected along the peaks of the pattern by the ridges that formed the m's in the other two sections.
ProvenanceBy 1987, owned by Miles J. Lourie; 1987, on commission to Fifty/50 gallery in New York (Mark A. McDonald); sold November 13, 1987 to John Axelrod, Boston, MA for $13,750 ($12,500 to Miles J. Lourie or his assigned and $1,250 commission to Fifty/50); 2014, gift of Axelrod to the MFA. (Accession date: October 29, 2014)