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Cigarette holder: Wien
Austrian
1950's
Medium/Technique
Plastic and pigment
Dimensions
Length x width: 8.4 x 1.3 cm (3 5/16 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Karen Sethur Rotenberg in memory of Sylvia Sethur
Accession Number2012.548
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Contemporary Art
ClassificationsPersonal accessories
DescriptionThis cocktail length cigarette holder has a stem of green plastic connected to a white plastic slightly bell-shaped end for the cigarette. Inside an oval of the white there is a sketch in brown of a church. Dark brown is painted around the oval and is decorated in white with small dots and the word "Wien" (Vienna).
Marks
Unmarked
ProvenanceBetween 1960 and 1995, purchased by Sylvia Sethur on one of various trips to Europe; 2011, by descent to Karen Rotenberg, Boston; 2012, gift of Rotenberg to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 26, 2012)