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"Lyric" cup and saucer
American
designed 1954
Object Place: Trenton, New Jersey
Medium/Technique
Earthenware with sgraffito and slip decoration
Dimensions
cup: H. 2 1/8 in.; Diameter 3 7/8 in.; saucer: Diameter 6 5/8 in.
Credit Line
Gift of Brett Angell
Accession Number2002.675.1a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionCircular cup with simple, biomorphic design incised on exterior, and given black and white slip decoration. Saucer glazed black.
Marks
Cup is bears a brown glaze-stamped mark on base: "Stangl / POTTERY / TRENTON, N.J." in an ellipse. Initial "R" added in black slip. Saucer bears a brown glaze-stamped mark on base: "Stangl / POTTERY / TRENTON, N.J." with four lines above the ellipse, indicating the year 1954. All in within an ellipse underneath saucer. Marked "m" in black slip near the mark.
ProvenancePurchased by Brett Angell in Milwaukee about 1989; to MFA, 2002, gift of Brett Angell.