Jar with Cover, c. 1938

Not on View

Medium

watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper

Dimensions

overall: 27.9 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.)
Original IAD Object: 12 3/4" high; 10" wide

Credit Line

Index of American Design

Accession Number

1943.8.17261

Artists / Makers

Alvin Shiren (artist) American, active c. 1935

Image Use

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Inscription

verso: across top in graphite: Jar with cover / early 19th century - red earthenware - / slip decoration of horozontal stripes / 12 3/4" x 10" / Owned by / Metropolitan . Museum of Art, / N.Y.C.

Bibliography

1970: Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design, New York: 1970, p. 361, no. 1280.