Art + Design 
11 April 2019
Art + Design 
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Ladislav Sutnar

Družstevní práce tableware

Epiag Loket
Czechoslovakia, c. 1930
glazed porcelain 8 h × 11½ w × 9 d in (20 × 29 × 23 cm)
estimate: $1,000–1,500
result: $1,000
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Set includes a punch bowl, two serving bowls, a butter dish, gravy bowl, three teapots, cream and sugar holders, seventeen plates, four bowls, four saucers, six teacups and six demitasse cups and saucers; forty-seven pieces in total. Stamped manufacturer's mark to underside of each element 'DP'.
Examples from this set are held in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York.

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Ladislav Sutnar was an artistic adviser for the Družstevní práce ("work cooperative"), a cultural and social organization in Prague from 1922 to 1957 that created affordable, accessible and well-designed items suited for everyday use. This tableware was produced from 1928 to 1932.

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