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%C2%A9 Estate of Eva Zeisel
Coffee pot, c. 1946 (designed 1942-1943)
Eva Zeisel; Manufacturer: Shenango Pottery, New Castle, Pennsylvania for Castleton China, New Yorkexpand_more
Glazed porcelainexpand_more
The Modernism Collection, gift of Norwest Bank Minnesotaexpand_more 98.276.174a,b
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Eva Zeisel's first major design in the United States, after emigrating from Hungary via Russia in 1938, was the "Museum" service. Shenango Pottery, looking for a design that was uniquely modern, turned to Zeisel upon the recommendation of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The "Museum" service drew from the simple and unornamented designs of the Bauhaus in Germany of the 1920s and 1930s, but Zeisel's soon-to-be trademark curavaceous, biomorphic forms, successfully executed in white porcelain, are a departure from Bauhaus tablewares. MoMA, keen to introduce Post-war Americans to modern design, showed the "Museum" service, several New York retailers, including Georg Jensen, carried it.
