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Tea and Coffee Piazza
American
1983
Place of Manufacture: Omegna, Italy
Medium/Technique
Sterling silver with lacquer, aluminum, Bakelite, and mock ivory
Dimensions
Tray - Overall: 7 x 41 cm (2 3/4 x 16 1/8 in.)
Coffee pot - Overall: 26.5 x 12 cm (10 7/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Coffee pot - Overall: 26.5 x 12 cm (10 7/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Daphne Farago Collection
Accession Number2012.1298.1-5
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
DescriptionSix pieces: Coffee pot: square section body with festooned sides, and four support bases likewise square sectioned with festooned sides. Top corners have four little spheres in blue lacquered aluminum. Truncated pyramidal feet in black bakelite. Truncated conical lid with knob composed of four miniature silver columns and semispherical cupola in blue glazed aluminum. Handle in mock ivory. Teapot: same characteristics. Cream-jug: same characteristics. Sugar-bowl: same characteristics, two handles in mock ivory. Spoon: Handle in rod, spherical knob in blue lacquered aluminum Tray: Round, glass surface. Upper and lower spheres in blue lacquered aluminum. Ring and columns of rim and handle connections in silver, handles in mock ivory. # 83 of a limited edition of 99
ProvenanceBy 1991, acquired by Donna Schneier Fine Arts, New York; 1991, sold by Donna Schneier Fine Arts to Daphne Farago, Little Compton, RI; 2012, year-end gift of the Daphne Farago Collection to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 27, 2013)