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Covered Butter Dish

c. 1936

Gertrude Lemberg

Associated Names

Gertrude Lemberg

Artist, American, active c. 1935

The image shows a large blue glass object resembling a bottle or container with a stopper on top. The color palette consists of various shades of blue on a plain, off-white background.

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Artwork overview

Medium

watercolor, graphite, pen and ink, and gouache on paperboard
Credit Line

Index of American Design
Dimensions

overall: 23 x 28.5 cm (9 1/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Accession Number

1943.8.11215

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1970

Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design. New York, 1970: 151, pl. 427.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: G. Lemberg

Wikidata ID

Q64572077

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