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American,
b. 1947
Teapot
1991
Stoneware
12 x 12 x 3.5 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
1993.26
Is Harris Deller’s Teapot a vessel or a canvas? Here he combines basic shapes—a cylinder, a triangle—with two coiled tubes resembling a spout and handle. Though the title encourages the viewer to understand the combined flattened shapes as a ceramic object used to serve tea and coffee, Deller turns to abstraction to reconsider the role of volume in such an object. By squeezing the volume out, he has transformed the nature of the vessel form. The abstracted teapot embraces a two-dimensional plane for mark making through incised lines that are scratched with black glaze, providing a graphic quality.
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