Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa: July 2011–June 2012
Beer vessel
mid 20th–20th century
Artist Unidentified, African
Height x diameter: 43.2 x 33 cm (17 x 13 in.)
Clay, fiber
Classification: Ceramics
Culture: African, Unidentified peoples, possibly Dinka, South Sudan
Accession number: 2011.1729
Provenance/Ownership History: By 2001, with an African dealer, New York; 2001, 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