Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa: July 2011–June 2012
Pot
mid 20th–20th century
Artist Unidentified, African
Height x diameter: 21.6 x 22.9 cm (8 1/2 x 9 in.)
Clay
Classification: Ceramics
Culture: African, Bongo peoples, South Sudan
Accession number: 2011.1728
Provenance/Ownership History: By 2002, with an African dealer, New York; 2002, sold by this dealer to Timothy Hamill, Boston; 2011, gift of Timothy Hamill to the MFA. (Accession date: September 21, 2011)
Gift of Tim Hamill