What is the name of Salvador Dalí's surrealist object featuring a telephone with a lobster?

Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist object featuring a telephone with a lobster is called Lobster Telephone.

Dalí created Lobster Telephone in 1936 for the English poet and Surrealist art patron Edward James. The work combines an ordinary working telephone with a plaster lobster placed over the receiver, transforming a familiar household object into an unsettling and humorous hybrid. Dalí also used the alternative title Aphrodisiac Telephone.

The pairing reflects Surrealism’s interest in unexpected juxtapositions and unconscious associations. Dalí linked food and sexuality in his imagery, and the lobster’s position over the mouthpiece gives the object an especially suggestive character. A common mix-up is to treat “Aphrodisiac Telephone” as a different work; it is an alternate name for Lobster Telephone. Dalí produced multiple versions, including colored and off-white examples now held by museums in Britain, Australia, Germany, and the United States.