Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

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Art of Europe: July 2011–June 2012


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Pitcher and Wash Basin, with view of the Boston State House

about 1840
John Rogers and Son, active 1815–1842
Basin: H. 4 3/4; Diam. 12 3/8 in. Pitcher: H. 8 3/4 in.; W. 9 in.; Diam. 6 1/2 in.
Pearlware, with transfer-printed decoration

Classification: Ceramics

Culture: English (Staffordshire)

Accession number: 2011.2122.1-2

Provenance/Ownership History: Acquired from Richard A. Bourne Co., Hyannis, MA, by S. Robert Teitelman (b. 1917 - d. 2008), Haverford, PA; August 22, 2010, posthumous Teitelman sale, Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, NH, lot 789, to Timothy Phillips, Cambridge, MA; 2011, gift of Timothy Phillips to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)

Gift of Timothy Phillips in memory of Thomas F. Phillips, Jr.