Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

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Art of the Americas: July 2011–June 2012


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Bowl

1941
Gertrud Amon Natzler
Otto Natzler
Overall: 12.1 x 27.3 cm (4 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.)
Earthenware

Classification: Ceramics

Object Place: Los Angeles, California

Accession number: 2012.405

Location: The 1940s and 1950s

Description: Thin-walled open bowl with small foot, red earthenware body, gray glaze with blue lava overflow at rim. Studio inventory number 1490.

Provenance/Ownership History: July 1941, the artists to John Entenza. 2009, Los Angeles Modern Auctions; June 7, 2009 purchased by Catherine Glynn Benkhaim at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (Lot 00456); 2012, Catherine Glynn Benkhaim partial gift and partial sale to the MFA. (Accession date: June 27, 2012)

Partial gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Lynch, Hope and Mel Barkan, Alan and Lorraine Bressler, and Susan W. Paine