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Photo: Scott Leen
Pitcher
Photo: Scott Leen

Pitcher

Dateca. 1970
Maker Erik Gronborg born Copenhagen, Denmark 1931
Label TextErik Gronborg’s slumped, impractically shaped mugs and vessels irreverently challenge notions of acceptable imagery in “high” and “low” art. While the female nude is a storied, recurring theme in Western art history, its appearance on a functional drinking vessel is a jarring and unexpected surprise.
Object number2000.183
Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture, June 21 - September 2, 2024.
Credit LineGift of Anne Gerber
Dimensions7 1/2 in. (19.05 cm) Diam.: 6 1/2 in.
MediumStoneware with lead glaze and luster
Photo: Scott Leen
Erik Gronborg
ca. 1968
Object number: 2000.184
Photo: Scott Leen
Erik Gronborg
late 1960s
Object number: 2000.185
Photo: Scott Leen
Erik Gronborg
ca. 1968
Object number: 2000.186
Photo: Scott Leen
Erik Gronborg
Object number: 2000.187
Deep plate
Caldas da Rainha factory
third quarter 19th century
Object number: 75.11
Faucet Pot
Patti Warashina
ca. 1966
Object number: 84.182
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Chinese
618-907
Object number: 33.21
Chinese
early 7th-mid 11th century
Object number: 48.191
Bowl with birds
Iraqi
10th century
Object number: 65.140
Airstream Turkey
Patti Warashina
1969
Object number: 94.86
Photo: Scott Leen
Howard Kottler
1987
Object number: 89.5
Photo:Scott Leen
Howard Kottler
1987
Object number: 91.72