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Bowl

American
about 1924
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Medium/Technique Earthenware
Dimensions 3 1/8 x 6 Diameter in. (8 x 15.2 Diameter cm)
Credit Line Gift of the Storrow Family
Accession Number1999.579
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryEarthenware

DescriptionBowl with tan/buff body with off-white glaze band at bottom and blue band at top, with central polychrome medallion decorated with 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.