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Cup and Saucer, from Four-piece Place Setting,
Accession # 85.158.10a-b
Designer Gwathmey Siegel
Manufacturer Swid Powell
Title Cup and Saucer, from Four-piece Place Setting, "Tuxedo"
Date ca. 1985
Medium Porcelain
Dimensions Cup (a): 2 1/8 x 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (5.4 x 10.8 x 8.6 cm) Saucer (b): 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (1.9 x 14.6 x 14.6 cm)
Marks On underside of both cup (a) and saucer (b), printed in black: '© Swid Powell / Gwathmey Siegel [facsimile signature in script] "Tuxedo" '
Inscriptions no inscriptions
Signed no signature
Credit Line Gift of Paul F. Walter
Location Visible Storage: Case 18, Shelf E (Contemporary Design)
Description "Tuxedo" pattern cup (a) and saucer (b) in white porcelain with vitreous glaze and transfer-printed decorations. Can-shaped cup (a), cylinder with simple arched handle. Rim decorated with series of small black squares. Three black squares around body of cup and four smaller squares near handle. Saucer (b), circular plate with wide rim; edge of rim decorated with border of small black rectangles; a black square appears in each quadrant of the rim; a black band outlines the slope of the dish of the plate but is broken under the four squares of the rim. The center of the plate has four black squares arranged in square pattern. Part of four-piece place setting (85.158.8-10a-b). CONDITION: (a) and (b) undamaged.