Object Timeline

2014

  • Work on this object began.

2015

  • Work on this object ended.

2022

2024

  • We acquired this object.

2025

Rare Earthenware Vase (Electric Car Battery Cell) Vase

This is a Vase. It was designed by Unknown Fields and collaborator: London Sculpture Workshop. It is dated 2014–2015 and we acquired it in 2024. Its medium is black stoneware, radioactive mine tailings . It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

It is credited Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 49 × 16 cm (19 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Rare Earthenware Vase (Electric Car Battery Cell) Vase; Designed by Unknown Fields; Collaborator: London Sculpture Workshop; black stoneware, radioactive mine tailings ; H x diam.: 49 × 16 cm (19 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.); Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 2024-31-3

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Designing Peace.

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