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Electric Teakettle Teakettle
This is a teakettle. It was designed by Peter Behrens and manufactured by Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft. It is dated 1908 and we acquired it in 1984. Its medium is silver-plated metal, rattan, wood. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
A member of the Deutsche Werkbund, an association of designers, architects and manufacturers founded in 1907 to promote high quality industrial design and production, Peter Behrens was committed to the ideal of creating an appropriate style for industrial products. His desings for the AEG firm ranged from graphics to product desing and factory architecture. (Toward Modern Design, 1993)
This object was
transferred from
Thomas S. Bly.
It is credited Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Fund through gift of A. Theodore Dell.
- Print, Der Küss (The Kiss), from Pan, vol. 4, no. 2, 1898
- woodcut on thin cream japan paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2005-13-1
- Lightscape Teapot
- hard-paste porcelain.
- Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
- 2015-21-1-a,b
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 21 × 17 × 11.7 cm (8 1/4 × 6 11/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
It has the following markings
On underside of kettle: [1] "3/4 Ij.", impressed
Cite this object as
Electric Teakettle Teakettle; Designed by Peter Behrens (German, 1868–1940); Manufactured by AEG Mobile Communications GmbH; Germany; silver-plated metal, rattan, wood; H x W x D: 21 × 17 × 11.7 cm (8 1/4 × 6 11/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Fund through gift of A. Theodore Dell; 1984-71-1-a,b
