Jean DUNAND (1877-1942) Egg-shaped vase with neck, circa 1925. In hammered pewter with geometric decoration in red and black lacquer. H.: 16.2 cm - Diam.: 6.4 cm. Signed "JEAN DUNAND" and numbered 5335 under the base. Scratches and wear. The machine," he says, "is too regular, too rigid, too perfectly geometrical. For him, "handwork is the only thing that counts, [which] will always be more moving, more pure. The most exhilarating discoveries, the particular - I was going to say personal - curve of a vase, the harmony of colors, of a decoration, often come from something unforeseeable that suddenly intervenes during the elaboration of your work: a sort of astonishing irregularity of character". Gauthier, 1923. Bibliography: Revue Apollo, Jean Dunand Art deco Craftsman, September 1982, Denys Sutton, vase model on p. 179. Anthony Delorenzo, Catalogue de l'exposition Jean Dunand, May-June 1985, E.P. Dutton, model of decorative staircase motif, p. 138. Félix Marcilhac & Amélie Marcilhac, Jean Dunand, Norma, vase model, compare p. 355.