Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa: July 2011–June 2012
Water container
mid 20th–20th century
Artist Unidentified, African
Height x diameter: 31.8 x 36.8 cm (12 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.)
Clay
Classification: Ceramics
Culture: African, Nupe peoples, Nigeria
Accession number: 2011.1733
Provenance/Ownership History: By 1995, with an African dealer, New York; 1995, 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