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Tuscany Pepper Mill
- Designer: Karim Rashid, Canadian, born Egypt, 1960
- Manufacturer: Nambé Studio
- Medium: Stainless steel
- Place Manufactured: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Dates: 1996
- Dimensions: 12 x 2 x 2 in. (30.5 x 5.1 x 5.1 cm)
- Markings: Impressed inside bottom on metal disk: "STAINLESS / STEEL" Incised inside bottom on rectangular plate: "Nambe Studio / 6144"
- Collections: Decorative Arts
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor - Accession Number: 1999.27.2
- Credit Line: Gift of Nambé Studio
- Image: Overall, 1999.27.2_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
- Catalogue Description: Highly polished stainless steel "Tuscany" pepper mill; hourglass shape tapering gradually from bottom, reaching its narrowest point just below the moveable piece that operates the grinder, then expanding more sharply outward to the top. Top is domed, with a small cylindrical finial in the center. CONDITION: Small pit or scratch on top of finial, very minor scratches overall.
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Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum