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Photo: Scott Leen
Cup
Photo: Scott Leen

Cup

Dateca. 1968
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 number2000.186
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
Dimensions2 3/4 in. (6.99 cm) Diam.: 4 in.
MediumStoneware with lead glaze and luster
Photo: Scott Leen
ca. 1968
Object number: 2000.184
Photo: Scott Leen
late 1960s
Object number: 2000.185
Photo: Scott Leen
Object number: 2000.187
Photo: Scott Leen
ca. 1970
Object number: 2000.183
Deep plate
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
Islamic
10th century
Object number: 65.140
Tea cup, named “Red Plum in Winter”
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