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Footed bowl with snake handle. V-shaped bowl with flared rim, yellow glaze. Green snake wraps around footed base, arches out and rests on edge rim. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark scratched on bottom.
bowls (vessels)
clay
Bowl
Butterfly mark (Small head with one antennae, diamond shaped wings, fish shaped body)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963 (Maker)
2 3/4 (H), 5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1765
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