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Elyse Pignolet
Trophy Wife2019

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Tall ceramic vase in Delftware style, cobalt blue on white, with loop handles, ruffled multi-spout crown, floral decoration, and inscribed names on a square painted pedestal base
Ceramic vase with white ground and cobalt blue painted decoration, featuring multiple large looping handles with small gold bead accents. The bulbous body is covered in hand-painted flowering vines interspersed with women's names written in blue script, including visible inscriptions such as "Ana Nicole Smith," "Nancy Pelosi," "Melinda Gates," "Ivanka Trump," "Hillary Clinton," "Princess Diana," and others.
Ceramic tile with blue-and-white underglaze decoration in the Delftware style. Central panel shows a standing female figure in short dress amid painted flowers and foliage, flanked by a wrapped gift box, a dollar sign, a wicker basket, and a medical syringe at the bottom. Floral border panels at left and right.
Delftware-style ceramic tile painted in cobalt blue on white, depicting a draped allegorical female figure holding a chalice within an arched floral border; a three-pointed star emblem appears behind her, foliage surrounds her lower body, and a medical syringe is rendered at the bottom edge.
Ceramic tile in blue and white, hand-painted with a bird in flight amid curling floral vines at center, framed by an arched border; floral panels flank each side and a chain-link pattern runs along the bottom.

Elyse Pignolet, Trophy Wife, 2019, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Debbie and Mark Attanasio and Kelly and Steve McLeod through the 2021 Decorative Arts and Design Acquisitions Committee (DA²), photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Elyse Pignolet
United States, California, Oakland, active Los Angeles, born 1979
Title
Trophy Wife
Date Made
2019
Medium
Glazed ceramic
Dimensions
36 × 15 × 10 in. (91.44 × 38.1 × 25.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Debbie and Mark Attanasio and Kelly and Steve McLeod through the 2021 Decorative Arts and Design Acquisitions Committee (DA²)
Accession Number
M.2021.159
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Copyright
© Elyse Pignolet

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