- Title : Model for an interior element: grotesque motif
- Artist: Hildo (Hildebrand Lucien) Krop Designer ESKAF (Eerste Steenwijker Kunst-Aardewerkfabriek) Manufacturer, attributed
- Accession: 87.672.7.3.1
- Country: Netherlands Amsterdam
- Date: circa 1920
- Dimensions: Inches 9-3/4 3-1/2 14-1/2, Centimeters 24.8 8.9 36.8
- Collection: Object
- Category: Interior Design
- Collection Theme: Modernism
- Subject: Interior Decoration , Animals , Architecture/Architectural Design , Ceramics/Ceramic Design
- Credit Line: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
- URL: 87.672.7.3.1.JPG
- Tags: Architecture~Interior Design~Modernism
Description:
Multi-colored gloss glazed, rectangular shaped, hollow terra cotta block with a yellow grotesque (half human, half beast) holding a black bird sculptural motif at one end and zigzag pattern on each side of block; designed to be built into a wall, a prototype which was never put into production.