Anchorage teapot

Designed by: Peter Shire (American, born in 1947)
Manufactured by: Memphis (Italian (Milan))
Produced by: Rossi e Arcandi (Italian, founded in 1959)

Italian (Milan)

1983

Object Place: Europe, Milan, Italy

Medium/Technique Metal; silver; lacquered wood

Dimensions 37.4 x 30.7 cm (14 3/4 x 12 1/16 in.)

Credit Line William Francis Warden Fund, made possible by the generous assistance of John Axelrod

Accession Number1999.117a-b

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Contemporary Art, Americas

ClassificationsSilver

DescriptionBlack tubular back leg with wedge-shaped, white foot; two thinner red tubular front legs ending in yellow spherical feet. Semi-spere over front legs forms body of teapot with ribbed conical section over back leg. Upper part of this section forms lid with spherical blue finial. Triangular-section spout rises from flat top of semi-sphere.