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Although only 48.5 cm high, it is a monumental object whose function within the interior was an architectural and sculptural one, in the fullest sense of the terms. Wright used similar urns in a number of commissions between 1895 and 1904, each a slight variant on the other.  In the Dana House this urn was one of a pair placed on a low interior wall separating the entrance and the spectacular double height living room (Wright's first use of the latter).\r\n\r\nThe stylised geometric decoration shows Wright's indebtedness to the Gothic Revival and the design reform movements in Britain, and the work of the French architect Viollet-le-Duc.  Wright often employed similar motifs within the fabric of his buildings and the copper colour related closely to the brick and other earth tones of the materials and decoration.","physicalDescription":"Large, globular bowl of sheet copper, patinated to a deep rich red, resting on a flared, cruciform foot and rising to an everted rim with a rolled edge.  The body is constructed in sections, soldered together on the inside.  On all four sides is a raised, semi circular boss with a crenellated edge, surrounded and divided by rectangular sections with pointed ends, defined by raised ridges, each section containing an oval or rectangular lozenge and separated at each end by a diamond shaped frame.  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