The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Saucer

Saucer

c. 1943
(American, born Vienna, Austria, 1908–1971)
(American, born Vienna, Austria, 1908–2007)
America
Earthenware with gunmetal metallic glaze
Saucer: 1 x 12.3 x 12.3 cm (3/8 x 4 13/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer 2020.89.b
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This cup and saucer were created shortly after Gertrud and Otto Natzler emigrated to the United States from Austria in 1938 to escape the onslaught of Nazi terror.

Description

Getrud and Otto Natzler were two of the most important American artisan designers working in ceramics in the 20th century. They were both born in Vienna, Austria, where they began their careers absorbing the early modernist aesthetic of that city in the 1920s. The Natzlers adapted the Viennese Secessionist emphasis on the purity of form in their early work as seen in this starkly unadorned cup and saucer.
  • ?-2008
    Catherine Glynn Benkaim [born 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, purchased from ?
    2008-2020
    Catherine Glynn Benkaim [born 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2020 - present
    The Cleveland Museum of Art
  • {{cite web|title=Saucer|url=false|author=Gertrud Natzler, Otto Natzler|year=c. 1943|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.89.b