cup;
saucer
- Museum number
- 2000,1107.4.4a
- Description
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Earthenware coffee cup and saucer, cast glazed in white.
- Production date
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1948 (designed)
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1953 (produced)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 131 millimetres (saucer)
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Height: 54 millimetres (cup)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Part of the 'Kilta' range of tableware designed by Kaj Franck in 1948 and introduced in 1953. The colours were intended to mix and match and include deep brown, white, bottle green and yellow. See Finnish Modern Design, exhibition catalogue, New York, Bard Graduate Center, 1998, pp. 224-5.
See 2000, 11-7,1-8 for others in this series.
For more images of this range of tableware see, Hans Wichmann, 'Industrial Design , Unikate, Serienerzeugnisse. Die Neue Sammlung, Ein neuer Museumtype des 20. Jahrunderts', Munich 1986, p. 123.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2000
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by the donors following their marriage in 1961 along with other Scandinavian household items and furniture. See memoir from Geoffrey Frankham on object file.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2000,1107.4.4a