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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 140, Factory Ceramics

Big Dripper

Coffee Pot
ca. 1985-1987 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Porcelain coffee pot, cover and filter with integral stand, decorated with red-brown and blue-green enamels and gilding.


Object details

Category
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Coffee Pot
  • Cover
  • Filter
TitleBig Dripper (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Enamelled and gilded porcelain
Brief description
Coffee pot, 'Big Dripper', with integral stand, cover and filter, porcelain painted in red-brown and blue-green enamels and gilded, designed by Michael Graves for Swid Powell, New York, U.S.A., ca. 1985-1987.
Physical description
Porcelain coffee pot, cover and filter with integral stand, decorated with red-brown and blue-green enamels and gilding.
Dimensions
  • Coffee pot & cover only; measured from object height: 22.7cm
  • Coffee pot with strainer only; measured from object height: 29.4cm
  • Maximum, with handle; measured from object width: 27.9cm
  • Measured from object depth: 17.7cm
Production
Made in Japan for Swid Powell, New York.
Bibliographic reference
Adamson, Glenn and Pavitt, Jane. Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970- 1990 London: V&A publishing, 2011 p, 235. ISBN 978 1 85177 6597
Collection
Accession number
C.128:1 to 3-2009

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Record createdJanuary 11, 2011
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