Dinner Plate, "Stratoware" Pattern Designer: Eva Zeisel (American, born Hungary, 1906–2011)
Designer: Francis E. Blod (American, 1908–1979)
Manufacturer: Universal Potteries Incorporated (American, 1934–55)
Retailer: Sears, Roebuck, and Company (American, founded 1893)

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1940 (designed), 1942–43 (manufactured)

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Earthenware

Dimensions

Diam. 9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm)

Credit Line

John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959

Accession Number

2010.158.4.31

Geography

Manufactured in Cambridge, Ohio, Designed in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
John C. Waddell, New York, 1998–2010; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed March 1, 2012), 15
  • John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 342–43, no. 240
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

dinner plates

Subject

Women designers

Marks

"Stratoware / MADE IN U.S.A." [within a cloud] transfer printed on the underside of all pieces except candlesticks NEED TO CHECK\r\n

Inscriptions

479

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