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Drawing, Design for a Teapot (Plan)

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1936 and we acquired it in 1995. Its medium is pen and black, brown ink, 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

20.7 x 26.6 cm (8 1/8 x 10 1/2 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite along drawn lid of teapot in a circle: ouverture a plomb du pied; right: 14 (underlined) joues [flanges]

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Teapot (Plan); France; pen and black, brown ink, graphite on cream tracing paper; 20.7 x 26.6 cm (8 1/8 x 10 1/2 in.); Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra; 1995-164-61

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