Cup (from the Imperial Hotel "Cabaret" table setting)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Frank Lloyd Wright (Designer)

Title

Cup (from the Imperial Hotel "Cabaret" table setting)

Place

Japan (Object made in:)

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Designed 1916–1922

Medium

Porcelain and glaze with gilding

Inscriptions

Incsribed bottom, stamped in red ink: "IH" [within hanging checkerboard pattern] / "Noritake [written in script] / "N" [written in script, within laurel wreath] / "NIPPON TOKI KAISHA / JAPAN / 1968"; gold foil sticker: "Noritake [in script] / SAMPLE / JAPAN]".

Dimensions

5.7 × 8.6 cm (2 3/16 × 3 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Noritake Company, Inc.

Reference Number

1974.78a

Copyright

© 2018 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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