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Ceramic plate with painted black bottom and black and white handpainted surface decoration of a pair of giraffes. One giraffe is drinking water the other is nibbling leaves from a tree. Nannie Phillips butterfly mark painted by the drinking giraffe's front right foot. Painted to commemorate James Duncan and Nannie Borden Phillips' 1930-1931 trip from Capetown to Cairo.
plates (dishes)
Plate
"P.W. of B" (cut into)
"Mrs. J.D. Phillips" (Handwritten in pencil on cloth label)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963 (Painter)
Pottery Workshop of Boston (Manufacturer)
6/8 (H), 7 1/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1163.3
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