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Platter Platter
This is a platter. It was attributed to El Lissitzky. It is dated ca. 1923 and we acquired it in 2015. Its medium is earthenware. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Russian Constructivist El Lissitzky spent much of his time in Germany in the early to mid-1920s. The design for this earthenware charger features strong geometrical patterns and the contrasting red and black favored by Constructivists and members of the De Stijl movement, to which Lissitzky was closely linked.
This object was
donated by
George R. Kravis II.
It is credited Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- Plate
- molded and glazed earthenware.
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2015-41-8
- Plate from the Tricorne Series, Mandarin Pattern Plate
- earthenware.
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2016-5-2
- Print, 10th Anniversary Invitation, SMth Organization, 1921-1931
- lithograph, typography on paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Lucy Work Hewitt.
- 1992-167-5
Our curators have highlighted 5 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Charger (France)
- tin-glazed earthenware.
- Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
- 2006-27-3
- Screen
- silver leaf, lacquered wood, cast metal (hinges).
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2018-22-29
![The back cover of a square-format magazine with an abstract image in black, red and off-white in the reductive, Neoplasticist style inspired by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The simplified composition features horizontal and vertical red bars against a black background. Two parallel horizontal bars near the top third of the cover are accented with an off-white reveal, the top line with stylized, left-justified typography [H.Th.W.], for the architect and cover designer H. Th. Wijdeveld, and the adjacent line below with the year [1925] in between red vertical bars. Shorter red, parallel vertical bars of equal height and spacing line the bottom of the cover, which has a partial red border on the left and bottom. Six small round holes on the right margin are threaded with black string, ostensibly holding the periodical together. There are light signs of wear and tear along the edges.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/325965_363a11304e13f0d4_n.jpg "Object ID #1108722047")
- Object ID #1108722047
- lithograph print on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library, N5 .W469 folio.
- 43.2016.18
Its dimensions are
H x diam.: 3 × 31 cm (1 3/16 × 12 3/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On uderside: [1] Cross in rectangle? [impressed] [2] 2854 [impressed]
Cite this object as
Platter Platter; Attributed to El Lissitzky; earthenware; H x diam.: 3 × 31 cm (1 3/16 × 12 3/16 in.); Gift of George R. Kravis II; 2015-41-7
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
