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Milk Jug, 1983
silver plate
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Designer Charles Jencks, American, 1939 - 2019
Manufacturer Alessi, S.p.a., Italian, founded 1921
Title
  • Milk Jug
  • Tea and Coffee Piazza (series title)
Date 1983
Medium silver plate
Dimensions Overall: 5 5/8 × 2 7/8 × 3 inches (14.3 × 7.3 × 7.6 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council, James Pearson Duffy Fund, Lenora and Alfred Glancy Foundation Fund, Modern Decorative Arts and Sculpture Fund, Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr. Fund
Accession Number 1986.28.3
Department Contemporary Art after 1950
Not On View
Provenance
1986-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Tea and Coffee Piazza. Exh. cat., Officina Alessi and Max Protetch Gallery. New York, 1983, pp. 16, 29, 42-45 (ill.).

Taragin, D. "From Vienna to the Studio Craft Movement." Apollo 124, no. 298 (Dec. 1986): 82-83 (ill.).