SS Queen Mary. Long Beach California. First Class Restaurant Doors. 1…

Bronzework for the SS Queen Mary (1934). Pier E, Long Beach, California, U.S.A. Door to the First Class Restaurant. Double doors, each with a decorated handle. Six mythological themes are represented. The handles are an important feature and a certain Chinoiserie has been deliberately inserted into the design of the work, with swallows, scarabs and goldfinches. The pillars of the handles are enriched with cloud forms. The double doors in the 1st Class Restaurant represent some of the ancient legends of famous voyages and incidents which took place on the Sea: Castor and Pollux; The Sirens; The nymphs of the Gardens of the Hesperides; Europa and the Bull; Latona and her children Diana and Apollo; and The birth of Aphrodite. At the foot of the grilles are a triton and a nereid. Scattered about the grilles are various subsidiary motifs – sea-babies riding on dolphins and with angel fish, and birds associated with water. https://www.scribd.com/doc/17256374/Walter-Gilbert-Main-Inventory https://archive.org/details/WalterGilbert

Artist: Phillip Medhurst. License: CC BY 3.0. Source

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