Bean Pot with Lid, Town and Country Dinner Service
- Designer: Eva Zeisel, American, born Hungary 1906
- Manufacturer: Red Wing Pottery, active 1936-1967
- Medium: Glazed earthenware
- Place Manufactured: Red Wing, Minnesota, USA
- Dates: Designed ca. 1945; Manufactured ca. 1946
- Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 9 in. (21 x 23.5 x 22.9 cm)
- Collections: Decorative Arts
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor - Accession Number: 1991.261.3a-b
- Credit Line: Gift of Paul F. Walter
- Image: Overall, 1991.261.3_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
- Catalogue Description: Squat spherical earthenware bean pot (a) and lib (b); turquoise-blue ground and vitreous glaze. Pot rises at top to continuous spherical knob in center; round opening or "spout" with pulled up sides cut out of top collar portion alongside knob. Flat round lid with rounded edges fits this opening. CONDITION: Good; some manufacturing imperfections including small unglazed spots around body and some raised flecks of clay on knob and body.
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