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1941

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1995

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Drawing, Design for a Creamer

This is a Drawing. It is dated October 1941 and we acquired it in 1995. Its medium is pen and black ink, graphite on cream tracing paper; verso: white and yellow pastel. 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

24.8 x 18.4 cm (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.), irregular

It has the following markings

Stamp in black ink, lower right: 47

It is inscribed

Inscribed in black ink, lower center: CREMIER (C)/DIAMETRE 10cms/HAUTEUR 7 cms [with arrows indicated measurements should be reversed]; lower right: JEAN PUIFORCAT/10.41.; in graphite on lower part of creamer: XX

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Creamer; Mexico; pen and black ink, graphite on cream tracing paper; verso: white and yellow pastel; 24.8 x 18.4 cm (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.), irregular; Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra; 1995-164-71

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