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Ceramic plate with painted black bottom and black and white handpainted surface decoration of a pair of African ibexes. Nannie Phillips butterfly mark painted in the grass, bottom left section of the plate. 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)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963 (Painter)
Pottery Workshop of Boston (Manufacturer)
7/8 (H), 7 1/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1163.10
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