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Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
Red Flowers Tea Cup and Saucer2000

Not on view
Hand-built ceramic cup and saucer with mottled golden-tan glaze and painted red floral motifs with green stems and blue outlines, both pieces with irregular, jagged rims
Ceramic cup and saucer with scalloped rims, both pieces decorated with hand-painted red flowers on green stems against a mottled ochre and white glaze; loop handle on cup; worn, rustic surface texture.
Two ceramic cups and saucers with heavily worn surfaces revealing an aged tan body beneath flaking white glaze, each decorated with painted red flowers and green foliage; the right cup shows significant rim damage and losses.
Artist or Maker
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
Venezuela, active United States, California, Venice, born 1929
Title
Red Flowers Tea Cup and Saucer
Date Made
2000
Medium
Stoneware
Dimensions
2 1/2 × 3 × 3 in. (6.35 × 7.62 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka
Accession Number
M.2019.383.4a-b
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Blondet, Jose Luis, editor. Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: The Finest Disregard. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.
Copyright
© Magdalena Suarez Frimkess