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Coffeepot with Lid, "Museum" Pattern

Designer: Eva Zeisel, American, born Hungary 1906
Manufacturer: Shenago Co., Castleton China Co.
Medium: Porcelain
Place Manufactured: New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA
Dates: ca. 1942-1943
Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 4 1/2 in. (25.4 x 17.8 x 11.4 cm)
Markings: no marks
Signature: no signature
Inscriptions: no inscriptions
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 1992.98.1a-b
Credit Line: Gift of Paul F. Walter
Image: Group, 1992.98.1a-b_1992.98.2_1992.98.3a-b_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: "Museum" pattern. Coffee pot (a) with lid (b), white porcelain with vitreous glaze; tall barrel shaped torso sloped inward to narrow cylindrical neck; ridge around interior of lip for lid support; attached sloped, flat curving handle and opposing tall sloped spout with thin, protruding lip; underside flat with narrow circular ridge. Lid is shallow dome with center rising to continuous short cylindrical finial. Museum pattern. CONDITION - Excellent.

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