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"Residential" Lug Soup Bowl
Designed by: Russel Wright (American, 1904–1976)
Manufactured by: Northern Industrial Chemical (active 1904–1963)
Manufactured by: Northern Industrial Chemical (active 1904–1963)
Designed 1953; made about 1953–60
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Medium/Technique
Melamine (plastic) in Turquoise
Dimensions
Overall: 4.13 x 15.24 x 13.34 cm (1 5/8 x 6 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W.R. Ward
Accession Number2010.34
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsPlastics
DescriptionBowl has a blue and white mottled effect, characteristic of Residential pieces.
Marks
InscriptionsStamped in base: Russel/Wright/RESIDENTIAL/by/Northern/BOSTON 27 ("Russel Wright" and "by Northern" is in script)
ProvenanceBy (date unknown), antique shop, Wells, ME; 2008, sold by shop to Barbara and Gerald Ward, Portsmouth, NH; 2010, gift of the Wards to the MFA. (Accession date: February 24, 2010)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.