Bowl, Hollywood Series
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Caption
Ettore Sottsass Jr. (Italian, born Austria, 1917–2007). Bowl, Hollywood Series, designed ca. 1959; made ca. 1975. Ceramic, 9 x 10 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (22.9 x 25.7 x 25.7 cm) Diameter of base: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Modernism Benefit Fund, 1996.131.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Collection
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Collection
Designer
Manufacturer
Title
Bowl, Hollywood Series
Date
designed ca. 1959; made ca. 1975
Geography
Place manufactured: Montelupo, Italy
Medium
Ceramic
Classification
Dimensions
9 x 10 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (22.9 x 25.7 x 25.7 cm) Diameter of base: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Signatures
On underside of base along inner rim, handwritten or hand-painted in black, "SOTTSASS"; next to this, hand-drawn in tan, a ring bisected by vertical line and flanked by two small rings; written in black within ring on either side of line "P A" and below "E 8"
Markings
On underside of base, printed along inner rim: rectangle oulined in black with narrow upper register in black containing "le céramiche di" in white; and lower white register containing "BITOSSI" and trademark symbol "R" in circle in black. Affixed along bottom edge of this rectangle, four identical black rectangular stickers, placed side by side, each with tan lettering "GRUPPO / BITOSSI"
Credit Line
Modernism Benefit Fund
Accession Number
1996.131.2
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