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GUSN-170811
Large ceramic bowl and nine dessert plates. Black painted bottoms with handpainted black and white surface decoration. Bowl depicts a large map of Africa, plates depict different types of African animals. Made by Nannie Borden Phillips to commemorate her 1930-1931 trip from Capetown to Cairo. Animal scenes traced from photograhs taken on the trip. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark on bottom along with P.W.of B. stamp.
tableware
ceramic (material)
Set, Tableware
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963 (Painter)
Pottery Workshop of Boston (Manufacturer)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1163
Title "Our Safari", Wool, canvas, painted wood, Made by Nannie Borden Phillips, 1940-1944. In the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum. Accession Number
Title Collection of photographs and 16mm home movie film from the 1930-1931 Capetown to Cario trip taken by James Duncan and Nannie Borden Phillips. Also have the trace paper drawings that Nannie made from the photographs in the unsorted JDP/NBP archival collection at Haverhill. Accession Number
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