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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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