Faucet Pot

ca. 1966

American, born 1940

Warashina makes a brilliant over-the-top interpretation of two cliched characteristics of the ceramic pot: to contain water and to evoke the female body. Her Faucet Pot is a stoneware container with hot and cold running water and a highly sensual set of curves. The artist creates a merry-go-round splendor by using vivid, lustrous glazes to embellish all manner of spots, drips, and sinuous shapes.

Stoneware with glaze and low-fire luster

30 1/4 x 17 1/2 in. (76.9 x 44.5 cm)

Gift of Dr. R. Joseph Monsen and Dr. Elaine R. Monsen

84.182

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Collection Highlights: 1945 To The Present, Sept. 12, 1996 - June 1, 1997.

Published ReferencesDrexler Lynn, Martha. American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, 1940-1979. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015; pp. 220-221, reproduced p. 221.

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