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Photo: Scott Leen
Cup
Photo: Scott Leen

Cup

Datelate 1960s
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 number2000.185
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
Dimensions8 3/8 in. (21.27 cm) Diam.: 5 3/4 in.
MediumStoneware with lead glaze and luster
Photo: Scott Leen
Erik Gronborg
ca. 1968
Object number: 2000.184
Photo: Scott Leen
Erik Gronborg
ca. 1968
Object number: 2000.186
Photo: Scott Leen
Erik Gronborg
Object number: 2000.187
Photo: Scott Leen
Erik Gronborg
ca. 1970
Object number: 2000.183
Deep plate
Caldas da Rainha factory
third quarter 19th century
Object number: 75.11
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Chinese
618-907
Object number: 33.21
Faucet Pot
Patti Warashina
ca. 1966
Object number: 84.182
Chinese
early 7th-mid 11th century
Object number: 48.191
Bowl with birds
Iraqi
10th century
Object number: 65.140
Tea cup, named “Red Plum in Winter”
Donyu (Raku III)
early 17th century
Object number: 52.67
Airstream Turkey
Patti Warashina
1969
Object number: 94.86
Photo: Scott Leen
Howard Kottler
1987
Object number: 89.5