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Vase
Maija Grotell (American, born in Finland, 1899–1973)
1929–38
Object Place: New York, New York
Medium/Technique
Wheelthrown earthenware with glaze and metallic paint decoration
Dimensions
Overall: 25.4 x 13.97 cm (10 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The John Axelrod Collection
Accession Number2014.1291
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionThe ovoid-shaped vase is covered with a mottled turquoise glaze, and decorated with two sections of iridescent silver horizontal lines of varying thickness, each intersected by vertical, regularly spaced designs of wheat and crescent moons.
Signed
Signed on base "MG" and Henry Street Settlement mark stamped inside foot.
Marks
Henry Street Settlement mark incised inside foot: composed of three characters (from left to right), a half moon shape, facing right, inside which are two parallel horizontal lines, a stylized "e," and a stylized "S."
ProvenanceBy 1985, owned by David Rago, American Art Pottery and Arts & Crafts, Trenton, NJ; December 18, 1985, purchased by John Axelrod; The John Axelrod Collection, Boston, MA; June 2008, Promised Gift to the MFA.; 2014, gift of Axelrod to the MFA. (Accession date: October 29, 2014)