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) - 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
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Merv Keehn and Sue Harlow, 2017 - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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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.
