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1943

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1996

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Drawing, Design for a Vegetable Dish

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1943 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is pen and black, red ink, reddish-brown crayon, graphite on cream tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra.

Its dimensions are

44.8 x 31cm (17 5/8 x 12 3/16in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black, center right: 129

It is inscribed

Inscribed in black ink, center: LEGUMBERA (CON ASA AMOVIBLE) [vegetable dish with removable handle]/DIAMETRE 20 cms/ANSE 8 cms 1/2 HAUTEUR 10 cms; lower right: JEAN PUIFORCAT/43.; above handle: (an arrow pointing left, downward) MADERA; in graphite to right of knob: 15 vis(?).

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Vegetable Dish; Mexico; pen and black, red ink, reddish-brown crayon, graphite on cream tracing paper; 44.8 x 31cm (17 5/8 x 12 3/16in.); Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra; 1995-164-16

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