Ceramic plate with painted black bottom and black and white handpainted surface decoration of a pair of monkeys in the trees and two beetles by a rock. Nannie Phillips butterfly mark painted in the trees, right side of the plate. Painted to commemorate James Duncan and Nannie Borden Phillips' 1930-1931 trip from Capetown to Cairo.
plates (balloon and platform frame components)
Plate
Butterfly mark (Nannie Phillips butterfly mark-small head, one antennae, diamond shaped wings, fish shaped body)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963 (Painter)
Pottery Workshop of Boston (Manufacturer)
7/8 (H), 7 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1163.7
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