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Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
Teacup1984

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Hand-built stoneware mug with speckled off-white glaze, decorated with loosely painted navy-blue figures in a Mesoamerican codex style
Ceramic cup with irregular, uneven rim and speckled white glaze with iron-brown speckling. Two cartoonish human figures rendered in loose blue underglaze line drawing wrap around the vessel's surface.
Ceramic mug with irregular hand-built form, covered in a matte white speckled glaze with rust-brown iron spots and scorched marks near the uneven rim; small looped handle on the left side.

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Teacup, 1984, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Betty M. Asher, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
Venezuela, active United States, California, Venice, born 1929
Title
Teacup
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1984
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
2 3/4 x 3 x 1 1/2 in. (6.99 x 7.62 x 3.81 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Estate of Betty M. Asher
Accession Number
AC1998.266.57
Classification
Furnishings
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

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