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Large ceramic bowl with black painted bottom and handpainted black and white surface decoration. Bowl depicts a large map of Africa surrounded by African amimals and trees. Nannie Phillips butterfly mark painted below the word "Africa." Map traces James Duncan and Nannie Borden Phillips' 1930-1931 trip from Capetown to Cairo. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark on bottom along with P.W.of B. stamp.
bowls (vessels)
Bowl
Butterfly mark (Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark with small head, one antennae, diamond shaped wings and fish shaped body)
"P.W. of B." (cut into)
"Phillips/Mrs. J.D." (Handwritten on cloth label)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963 (Painter)
Pottery Workshop of Boston (Manufacturer)
3 1/4 (H), 14 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1163.1
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