Objects of Our Affection: Eva Zeisel’s Town and Country salt and pepper shakers

Eva Zeisel , Town and Country salt and pepper shakers, c. 1945, Red Wing Potteries, Inc. Gift from the George R. Kravis II Collection

Extraordinary things need not be made of precious materials, nor do they have to be expensive. These biomorphic salt and paper shakers were designed by the famed pottery and glass designer Eva Zeisel for a midwestern manufacturer and are featured as part of Extraordinary Ordinary Things in Carnegie Museum of Art’s Alisa Mellon Bruce Galleries.