Frank Lloyd Wright Cup
notes: label: Description
content: 1978.0271.1
label: Description
content: Cup and Saucer
label: Description
content: About 1914
label: Description
content: Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
label: Description
content: Made by Shenango Pottery
label: Description
content: New Castle, Pennsylvania
label: Description
content: This cup and saucer were designed by noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright for his spectacular Midway Gardens, a Chicago concert garden and restaurant built in 1914. Wright designed all the furnishings and the ornamentation to coordinate with his architectural design. The building was torn down in 1929.
label: Description
content: The cup and saucer were a gift to the Smithsonian from the architect's son John Lloyd Wright.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Family & Social Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frances Wright (Mrs. John Lloyd Wright)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0271.1
label: accession number
content: 1978.0271
label: catalog number
content: 1978.271.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cup and Saucer
label: Object Name
content: cup
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: green (cup color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (saucer color)
label: Physical Description
content: polychrome (component surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: geometric motif (joint piece description of decoration)
label: Physical Description
content: geometric motif (overall description of decoration)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, porcelain, hard-paste (cup material)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, porcelain, hard-paste (saucer material)
label: Measurements
content: saucer diameter: 15.6718 cm; x 6 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: cup diameter: 4 in; x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 5 in; 5.3975 cm x 12.7 cm