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Covered dish with strainer

American
about 1924
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts

Medium/Technique Earthenware
Dimensions 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Storrow Family
Accession Number1999.555a-c
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryEarthenware

DescriptionGlazed dish with inset strainer and separate cover; dish on raised foot with blue border; off-white inner section with perforations; lid with blue lower edge, off white upper section, loop handle in blue, and central poolychrome medallion with image of a goose in a landscape and the initials "JJS" in black.
ProvenanceCommissioned by Helen (Mrs. James J.) Storrow, the founder and benefactor of the pottery, for her family table; the service descended to Helen's son, James, and then to her grandson, James Storrow; to MFA, 1999, gift of James Storrow.