About this artwork
Peter Behrens designed this demitasse (small coffee cup) and saucer for a model dining room display at the Wertheim department store in Berlin in 1902. It was one of twelve architect-designed rooms installed in the prominent German store; these rooms helped disseminate modern design to consumers. Behrens repeated the pattern of geometric forms on the furniture, lighting, wallpaper, and carpet of the room.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Applied Arts of Europe
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Artist
- Peter Behrens (Designer)
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Title
- Demitasse and Saucer
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Place
- Weiden in der Oberpfalz (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1900–1902
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Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
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Dimensions
- Cup: H. 6 cm (2 7/16 in.) diam. 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.) Saucer: H. 1.3 cm (1/2 in.) diam. 13.6 cm (5 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of The Antiquarian Society through Mrs. Robert E. Straus, Mrs. Benton J. Willner, Mrs. R. Michael Gately, Nancy C. Gorman, and Mrs. Huntington Eldridge funds
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Reference Number
- 1988.246.1-2
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/109475/manifest.json
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