Collection Highlights
Cayambe
Date:
1858
Object Number:
S-91
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Platters (four)
Object Number:
2003.56.6a-d
Date:
ca. 1946-1960
Medium:
Earthenware
Description:
Kidney-shaped platters (four) from the "Town and Country" pattern.
Gallery Label:
In the mid-1940s, the president of Red Wing Pottery commissioned New York-based industrial designer Eva Zeisel to create a "Greenwich Villagey" dinner service; namely, tableware with informal shapes that would appeal to young consumers embracing a more casual lifestyle after World War II. The resulting line of dinnerware of free-form organic shapes with mix-and-match colors was promoted by Red Wing as "contemporary, functional, colorful, smart."
Credit Line:
Gift of Eva Zeisel, Designer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
