Modern, architectural quadruple bud vase in a glossy, jade green ceramic and composed of four box shapes in varying heights and widths, attached together in an angular fashion. The art pottery piece features a narrow raised bud opening centered at the top of each box, similar to an inkwell. The geometric shape, sharp edges, and solid coloring are reflective of the Cubist style. The vase is set against an grey-black ombre background.

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	We acquired this object.
1924	Work on this object began.
1934	Work on this object ended.
2017	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Object ID #907130113

This is a vase. It was manufactured by Sebring Pottery. It is dated ca. 1929. Its medium is ceramic.

Gale Turnbull’s series of geometric-form vases for Sebring Pottery of about 1929 brought affordable modern design to a wider audience. In both color and form, this example typifies the palette and shape of the urban aesthetic of the late 1920s.

It is credited Collection of Mark Bassett and George Cooper.

Object ID #907214107

Object ID #907214107
53.2016.6

Vase
glazed earthenware.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2015-41-5

The front view of a pale yellow ziggurat and rectangular compression molded plastic radio of 1935, known as the Skyscraper radio. This art deco radio reflects an Egyptian stepped up architectural motif that leads to a narrowed and flattened roof where the speaker of the radio is housed with six slats and covered with a textured and woven fabric for improved sound effect. The front of the radio features a central panel of molded plaskon with a cascade of seven vertical striations alluding to a waterfall design. Four horizontal striations of molded plaskon emanate on either side of the central panel, close to the base, and on each of its sides sit a tuning knob of metal and white. The cascading central panel holds two important and decorative features of the radio. Toward the top is a glass enclosed rectangular metal framed insert with a depiction of two world globes complete with stars and squiggly lines as cloud formations in a dark outline. The name “Air King”, the Brooklyn based manufacturer of the radio is printed above. At the center and below the insert, there is a ziggurat metal plaque with four nail heads and four striations. Within this plaque is the radio dial, comprised of three concentric circles in glossy black with white edging. The outer rim shows four digit numbers, with tiny intervals of lines (frequency markers) in white for fine tuning, in the mid circle are two digit numbers with frequency markers and with the word megacycles, also in white. In the inner circle and displayed for ornament, is a white seated figure of Atlas holding up the world. Intersecting the Atlas figure is the main tuning needle (depicted as a airplane style needle) pointing to the numbers and tuning marks located at the circumference. Below his feet is printed the name, “Atlas”. All is enclosed behind a circle of glass. Attached at the metal base of the disk is the central tuning knob in metal and white.

Skyscraper Radio, 1935
compression-molded plaskon, metal, glass, woven textile.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-20

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Vibrant indigo-colored conical bowl with two stylized divets notched on oppposite sides of the rim. The conical shape blooms upward and outwardly from a very small white base at the foot of the bowl. The diameter is very wide at the top and very small at the bottom, the bowl itself very thin.

Pebbled YKB Bowl
glazed porcelain.
Gift of Dr. J. William Fielding.
1984-103-1

Sculpture, New York

Sculpture, New York
brass and steel on black marble base (or vulcanite base).
Lent by Indianapolis Museum of Art, Discretionary Fund, 73.8.
68.2016.1

Chair, Skyscraper

Chair, Skyscraper
painted pine.
Collection of Jody and Dick Goisman.
44.2016.1

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 14.6 × 20.3 × 19.1 cm (5 3/4 in. × 8 in. × 7 1/2 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2oahbn/
Accession Number 47.2016.3
Object ID 907130113