"Heart Teapot: Homage to Archie Bray"
Richard Notkin was profoundly influenced by the refined and tastefully simplistic clay pots from the Yixing region of China that often assume realistically modeled forms and took them one step further. Here, a human heart is made improbably of bricks—a reference to the kindheartedness of the early mentor Archie Bray, who gave ceramists clays and access to a kiln in exchange for labor in his brick factory.
Artwork Details
- Title: "Heart Teapot: Homage to Archie Bray"
- Designer: Richard Notkin (American, born Chicago 1948)
- Date: 1988–92
- Medium: Stoneware
- Dimensions: 6 × 5 × 11 1/4 in., 1.8 lb. (15.2 × 12.7 × 28.6 cm, 0.8 kg)
- Classification: Ceramics-Pottery
- Credit Line: Gift of Barbara S. Rosenthal and Kenneth W. Juster, 2002
- Object Number: 2002.584.1a, b
- Rights and Reproduction: © Richard Notkin
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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