Hot Water Pot from "Intourist" Tea Service ("Leningrad 1935" Pattern)
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, USSR, founded 1744
- Designer
- Eva Zeisel, American, born Hungary, 1906–2011
- Varvara Petrovna Freze, Russian, 1883–1970
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Cylindrical form (a), rounded at base and top, long wide spout, large flat loop handle, disk-shaped lid (b). Painted on the front with picture of Evseyev's statue of Lenin in polychrome enamel and on the back with gilded image of St. Isaac's Cathedral; gilded ornament of flags on sides of spout, ribbon border on top of body, and flat surface of handle; lid with a gilt emblem and the letters RSFSR, and the date 1935 in blue.
- Credit Line
- The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase through the Decorative Arts Association Acquisition and Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program Funds
- Designed 1933 (shape), 1935 (decoration)
- Accession Number
- 1989-41-88-a,b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- hot water pot
- Type
- hot water pot
- Medium
- porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (a,b): 12.4 × 17.1 × 10.2 cm (4 7/8 in. × 6 3/4 in. × 4 in.)
- made in
- Leningrad, Soviet Union
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1989-41-88-a_b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49295c527-12c6-40d6-843d-9a46a4343c9a
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