"Salamina" Plate | Yale University Art Gallery

Designed 1939; manufactured 1939–42

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design

Medium: Cream-colored earthenware with handpainted and transfer-printed decoration
Dimensions: h. : 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)
diam.: 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)
Credit Line: Olive Louise Dann Fund
Accession Number: 1987.30.1
Geography: Made in Los Angeles, California, Designed in Au Sable Forks, New York
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Containers
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Unknown collection, East Hampton, Conn., 1987

Bibliography

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), 240–41, no. 164

"Acquisitions 1985–1987," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 2 (Spring 1988), 122, ill

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Subject

"SALAMINIA / Designed by / Rockwell Kent [script] / VERNON KILNS / Made in U.S.A.," transfer-printed on underside

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