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Louis Ipsen
Stacking Storage Dishescirca 1932

Not on view
Ceramic tiffin-style stacked vessels in yellow, orange, and blue with horizontal ribbed surfaces, held in a bronze-toned metal carrier with loop handles
Ceramic kitchenware set with ribbed surfaces in yellow, orange, and blue glazes; three stacking lidded containers held in a copper-toned metal rack at right, and a footed blue reamer with clear glass insert at left.
Three stacked ceramic vessels with glossy glaze and horizontal ribbed patterning: a lidded yellow cylinder on top, an orange cylinder in the middle, and a blue bowl at the base held in a copper-toned metal frame with two circular handles.
Ceramic stacking vessel set of three ribbed cylindrical containers in yellow, orange, and blue, with a fitted yellow lid on top; the blue base rests in a copper-toned metal carrier with two loop handles.
Designer
Louis Ipsen
Denmark, active United States, California, Los Angeles, 1873-1947
Ceramics engineer
Victor F. Houser
United States, active California, Los Angeles, 1905-1998
Manufacturer
J. A. Bauer Pottery Company
United States, Kentucky, Paducah,1885-1909; California, Los Angeles, 1909-62
Title
Stacking Storage Dishes
Date Made
circa 1932
Medium
Earthenware, wood, steel
Dimensions
8 × 7 × 5 in. (20.32 × 17.78 × 12.7 cm) Diameter (.1a) Yellow lid): 5 7/8 in. (14.92 cm) Height (.1a) Yellow lid): 7/8 in. (2.22 cm) Diameter (.1b, .2, .3 each bowl ): 5 7/8 in. (14.92 cm) Height (.1b, .2, .3 each bowl ): 2 5/8 in. (6.67 cm)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts and Design Acquisition Fund and partial gift of Bill Stern
Accession Number
M.2010.91.6.1-.4
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017.
Selected Exhibition History
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014