Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2010

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"American Modern" lug fruit bowl

designed 1937; made 1938–59
Designed by Russel Wright
Manufactured by Steubenville Pottery Company
Overall: 4.76 x 16.99 x 13.97 cm (1 7/8 x 6 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Whiteware with coral glaze

Classification: Ceramics

Object Place: Steubenville, Ohio

Accession number: 2010.33

Provenance/Ownership History: Early history unknown; by date unknown, antique shop, Wells, ME; 2008, sold by shop to Barbara and Gerald Ward, Portsmouth, NH; 2010, gift of the Wards to the MFA. (Accession date: February 24, 2010)

Gift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W.R. Ward