About the Artwork
Cookie Jar
ca. 1953
Murray A. Douglas
1915 - 2008
American
Unknown
Stoneware with slip glaze
Overall: 8 3/4 × 6 inches (22.2 × 15.2 cm)
Ceramics
Contemporary Art after 1950
Sidney F. Heavenrich Purchase Prize, Regional Exhibition for Designer Craftsmen U.S.A., 1953
53.271
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Markings
Signed on bottom: Murray Douglas [underlined]
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Provenance
1953-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Regional Exhibition for Designer Craftsmen U.S.A. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1953, p. 7 (ill.).
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Murray A. Douglas, Cookie Jar, ca. 1953, stoneware with slip glaze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Sidney F. Heavenrich Purchase Prize, Regional Exhibition for Designer Craftsmen U.S.A., 1953, 53.271.
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