Duchampian Sliding Screens Salesman Sample (or Moire Pattern Making Machine) 1940s shuttlecocks 1 5/8" w x 1

1 5/8" w x 1 3/8" t x 1 5/16" w and in very good condition

Stamped ''EWA'' and "Made in'Vienna

is a slide opening

The drawing is in great shape

Duchampian Sliding Screens Salesman Sample (or Moire Pattern Making Machine) 1940s shuttlecocks 1 5/8" w x 1Another example of a thing made for one purpose, but which, recontextualized, feels quite like an artwork, this one feeling very Duchampian to me, including for his ongoing interest in thresholds and portals (doors, windows, peepholes, glass, etc..) I believe it was made as a salesman sample for sliding screens, here with three screens, each with handles for sliding them in one direction or the other. They can all be slid, one by one, to one side or