Eva Zeisel, 2 Monmouth Bird-Form Vessels
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Eva Zeisel, a bird-form Basket or Sauce Boat, Pennsylvania Dutch decoration pattern, together with a bird-form lidded Sugar Bowl in Colonial decoration pattern, Eva Zeisel Fine Stoneware, Monmouth Pottery, Western Stoneware Company, Monmouth, Illinois, circa 1953-1954. The basket with standard blue backstamp, the sugar unmarked. Height: 7 3/4 in. (19.5 cm); dia.: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm). Sugar: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm); dia.: 4 1/4 in. (11 cm). 1620-061
Provenance (Sugar): Estate of Bette Cooper
Exhibited: (Basket and Sugar): Limn Furnishings, San Francisco, 7 May 2003; San Francisco, Sunnyside Neighborhood Association, "Collection of Pat Moore and Dr. Gene L. Grobman," 18-19 October 2014.
Note: Bette Cooper, co-author of Monmouth Western Stoneware (1983), was an unofficial archivist for the factory and collected examples of these works, including test pieces, as they came off the line. Her collection included numerous rarities. On this line, see Scott Vermillion, "Eva Zeisel Stoneware and Ironstone," in Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty, 2013, pp. 102-109.
Provenance (Sugar): Estate of Bette Cooper
Exhibited: (Basket and Sugar): Limn Furnishings, San Francisco, 7 May 2003; San Francisco, Sunnyside Neighborhood Association, "Collection of Pat Moore and Dr. Gene L. Grobman," 18-19 October 2014.
Note: Bette Cooper, co-author of Monmouth Western Stoneware (1983), was an unofficial archivist for the factory and collected examples of these works, including test pieces, as they came off the line. Her collection included numerous rarities. On this line, see Scott Vermillion, "Eva Zeisel Stoneware and Ironstone," in Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty, 2013, pp. 102-109.
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Eva Zeisel, 2 Monmouth Bird-Form Vessels
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