teapot;
burner
- Museum number
- 2016,8017.1.a-d
- Description
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Glass tea-pot and burner, clear heat-resistant glass, mould-blown, the teapot of squat from with sunken glass lid (a-b), the neck fitted with aluminium frame to hold a high cork handle. The teapot rests on a glass burner (c) with raised rim, within which rests an aluminium ring (d), so that there is a layer of metal between the two glass vessels. The burner designed to hold a tea-light.
- Production date
- 1971 (designed)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 16.20 centimetres (burner)
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Diameter: 15.30 centimetres (teapot)
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Height: 9.50 centimetres (burner)
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Height: 18.80 centimetres (teapot, including handle)
- Curator's comments
- One of Signe Persson-Melin's fist desgins fo Boda Niocva, advertised in their publicity brochure for 1972, together with a matching coffee-pot and burner, see K. Wickman, 'Signe Persson-Melin Keramiker och formgivare', T&M Förlag, Lund, 1997, pp. 90-91. For the coffee-pot, see also G. Lueg, 'Design im 20. Jahrhundert', Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, 1989, cat. 443, p. 244.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2016
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased at Mid-Century Modern Fair, Haggerston, October 2015.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2016,8017.1.a-d