Sugar bowl with lid

ca. 1946-1960

Place madeRed Wing, Minnesota, United States, North America

Earthenware

Overall: 3 1/2 x 4 x 4 in. ( 8.9 x 10.2 x 10.2 cm )

Gift of Eva Zeisel, Designer

2003.56.5ab

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."

DescriptionChartreuse sugar bowl and lid in the "Town and Country" pattern.

ClassificationsCERAMICS