Terms and conditions of use
Gobelin 8, tea service
(c. 1929)
Medium
earthenware
Measurements
(a-b) 13.3 × 24.1 × 16.2 cm (overall) (teapot)
(c) 6.7 × 14.4 × 10.2 cm (milk jug)
(d-e) 9.8 × 16.2 × 12.0 cm (overall) (sugar box)
(f-g) 6.2 × 16.8 cm diameter (overall) (cup and saucer)
(h-i) 6.2 × 16.8 cm diameter (overall) (cup and saucer)
(j-k) 6.2 × 16.8 cm diameter (overall) (cup and saucer)
(l) 5.8 × 12.2 × 10.4 cm (cup)
(m) 5.8 × 12.2 × 10.4 cm (cup)
(n) 5.8 × 12.2 × 10.4 cm (cup)
(o) 2.1 × 19.5 cm diameter (side plate)
(p) 2.1 × 19.5 cm diameter (side plate)
(q) 2.1 × 19.5 cm diameter (side plate)
(r) 2.1 × 19.5 cm diameter (side plate)
(s) 2.1 × 19.5 cm diameter (side plate)
(t) 2.1 × 19.5 cm diameter (side plate)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Merv Keehn and Sue Harlow, 2017
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Eva (Striker) Zeisel was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States in 1938. She was one of the most important ceramic designers of the twentieth century. Zeisel trained as a potter before working as a designer for the Schramberger Majolikafabrik in Germany, where she created many bold designs for tableware, tea services and ornamental vases. The abstracted geometric forms and decoration of this tea service reveal the influence of the formal language of the German Bauhaus school on this early period of Zeisel’s career.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Schramberg, Germany
Inscription
(a) stamped in black on base c.l.: Majolika / SMF (in shield) / SCHRAMBERG / Handgemalt
impressed (vertically) in base c.l.: 321
stamped (inverted) in black on base c.l.: 3
Accession Number
2017.211.a-t
Department
International Decorative Arts