Platter, Town and Country

ca. 1947-1956

Place madeRed Wing, Minnesota, United States, North America

Earthenware

Overall: 1 1/2 × 6 × 9 in. (3.8 × 15.2 × 22.9 cm)

Gift of Eva Zeisel, Designer

2003.56.6c

In the mid-1940s, the president of Red Wing Pottery commissioned New York-based industrial designer Eva Zeisel to create a "Greenwich Villagey" dinner service; namely, tableware with informal shapes that would appeal to young consumers embracing a more casual lifestyle after World War II. The resulting line of dinnerware of free-form organic shapes with mix-and-match colors was promoted by Red Wing as "contemporary, functional, colorful, smart."

DescriptionKidney-shaped light tan platter from the "Town and Country" pattern.

ClassificationsCERAMICS