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Collections

Pepe Mendoza
Dishcirca 1960

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Overhead view of a small gold metal dish with an irregular rounded form, featuring a shallow oval well surrounded by a border inlaid with turquoise and lapis lazuli mosaic and small raised gold oval motifs
Artist or Maker
Pepe Mendoza
Mexico
Title
Dish
Place Made
Mexico
Date Made
circa 1960
Medium
Imitation turquoise, brass
Dimensions
5 1/4 × 3 1/2 × 1 in. (13.34 × 8.89 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts and Design Council Fund
Accession Number
M.2015.74.4
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Curatorial Notes

Mexican designer Pepe Mendoza created inlaid brass accessories and furniture, ranging from tables and lamps to small dishes and hardware. Though period advertisements promote the work as brass and turquoise, the latter a stone long associated with Mesoamerican culture, the inlay is actually an imitation material. Made in Mexico, the pieces were retailed both there and in the United States.


Staci Steinberger, Assistant Curator, Decorative Arts and Design

Copyright
© Pepe Mendoza

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