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. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
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". 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". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014

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Louis Ipsen
Stacking Storage Dishescirca 1932

Not on view

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. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
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". 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". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014

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