Ensemble: Coffee service with sugar, creamer, and two cups & saucers

Cup

Artist Eva Zeisel (American, born Hungary, 1906 - 2011)

Manufacturer Schramberger Majolika-Fabrik (German, 1820 - 1989)

Date1929-1935

MediumGlazed earthenware

DimensionsOverall: 1 3/4 × 3 5/8 × 4 1/2 inches (4.45 × 9.21 × 11.43 cm)

Credit LineGift of Julián Zugazagoitia in honor of Shirley Helzberg

Object number2018.1.4

MarkingsStamped on the bottom with a black manufacturers mark. The top of the stamp reads MAJOLIKA. The center of the stamp is an escutcheon or shield-shaped emblem displaying the letters SMF (for Schramberger Majolika-Fabrik). The bottom of the stamp reads: SCHRAMBERG above Kandgemalt. To the right of and perpendicular to the manufacturers mark is the number 5.

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts

Terms

DescriptionThis five-part tea service is comprised of a teapot with lid, a sugar bowl with lid, creamer, and two cups and saucers. The teapot, sugar bowl, and creamer are cylindrical with flat sides and decorated in a pale lime wash background with a geometric zigzag stripe of yellow, orange and brick red. These bands create a stepped pattern across the surface. The teapot has a triangular shaped spout growing from the curves of the cylinder and a trapezoidal shaped lid, inset into the top of the pot. The teapot and creamer handles are flat bands creating a semi-circle. These handles have a brick red colored stripe on their edges. The creamer mimics the teapot in form but is smaller in scale. The sugar bowl and creamer are of similar scale and shape. Like the teapot, the sugar bowl contains a lid that follows the curve of the vessel. The two cups are short with wide mouths, and the matching saucers have slightly flared concave lips. The teacups and saucers share the same stepped-pattern decoration as the teapot, sugarbowl and creamer. The saucers have the zigzag stripes across the plate’s surface, creating a large Z-shape.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Collection of Pat Moore and Dr. Gene L. Grobman, Sunnyside Neighborhood Association, San Francisco, California, October 18-19, 2014, no cat.

American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918-1939, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, June 5 2021–September 5 2021; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; July 9 2022–January 8 2023, no cat.

Provenance

Private Collection, Brazil;

Ms. Pat Moore and Dr. Gene L. Grobman (1929-2016), San Francisco, CA, by 2016;

Purchased at their sale, Moore-Grobman Collection of Works by Eva Zeisel, John Atzbach Antiques, Redmond, WA, lot 14, by Catherine L. Futter, Fairway, KS, October 12, 2017;

Purchased from Futter by Julián Zugazagoitia, Kansas City, MO, 2017;

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.

Published References

Pat Kirkham, Pat Moore, and Pirco Wolfframm, et al., Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2013), 46-47 (repro.).

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