Potter woman - Eva Zeisel

 

Eva Zeisel (1906 - 2011) was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships. Work from throughout her prodigious career is included in important museum collections across the world. Zeisel declared herself a "maker of useful things."

Some of Zeisel's ceramic pieces designed for Red Wing Pottery's "Town and Country" dinner service (1947). This set includes a "mother and child" salt and pepper shakers, and a baby oil pourer that exemplify her organic, curving forms.