The Ark, 2021

Description of the artwork

Silver weight : 1500g
Total weight : 5584g

"Like medieval naves, this rich craft serves as a table centerpiece. On a high circular foot of silver and cloisonné sodalite, its hull with cloisonné sodalite strakes carries a roof shaped like a small chapel with a red jasper roof and windows and portals of silvered iron pyrite and rock crystal. A gull with sodalite wings is perched on its ridge. On the silver mast with carnelian flame, a hinged yard is rigged, with mother-of-pearl and rock-crystal sails hanging in four festoons. Sitting at the bow is a small figure wearing a toque (papakha), belted kaftan and pulley boots." Jacques Santrot

Literature

Reproduced in the catalog of the exhibition "Goudji in Paris" organized at the Mairie du Ve arrondissement in Paris 2023, p.115