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American Art

Coffeepot

Made in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, North and Central America

1928

Designed by Erik Magnussen, Danish, 1884 - 1961. Made by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, 1831 - present.

Silver; ivory finial; ebony handle
8 1/8 x 8 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches (20.7 x 20.6 x 9.8 cm)

* Gallery 104, American Art, first floor (Sherrerd Gallery)

2001-8-1

Purchased with the Richardson Fund and with funds from the proceeds of the sale of deaccessioned works of art, 2001

Label

Silver objects made in the United States during the late 1920s and 1930s were mostly traditional in style, although a few manufacturers catered to what was called “modernistic” taste. This coffeepot created by Erik Magnussen for Gorham exhibits an abstraction of traditional form.

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