Cranes at Tea Silhouette Mug
Cranes at Tea Silhouette Mug
Cranes at Tea Silhouette Mug
Cranes at Tea Silhouette Mug
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Cranes at Tea Silhouette Mug

$18.50

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Enjoy your tea with our generous 15oz. white ceramic mug featuring the Crane Family at Tea silhouette art by Eveline von Maydell (1890-1926). 

From the Crane Estate collection, Von Maydell created the unique and remarkable family portrait silhouette, The Crane Family at Tea, signed and dated 1926.

Von Maydell’s portrait of the Crane family is a striking black-on-white paper silhouette of the family seated for tea. It is executed with tremendous detail and delicacy. The depiction of parquet flooring is a clue that this scene is set at Castle Hill, as well as the lilies, which were prolific in the Italian Garden.

Baroness Eveline von Maydell was a Baltic-German artist born in Iran who studied drawing in Estonia, Latvia, Russia and Germany. The creative peak of her career was between world wars, when she lived and worked in Germany, the U.S. and Estonia.

Portrait silhouettes were popular in the late 18th and early to mid-19th centuries, with paper silhouettes becoming more typical after black paper was more readily available around 1820. 

Product details:
Ceramic
15 oz.
Microwave and dishwater safe


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