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"Golf" plate

Designed by: Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906–2008)
For: Cowan Pottery Studio (active 1919–1931)
designed 1930; made 1930–1931
Object Place: Rocky River, Ohio

Medium/Technique Molded earthenware with polychrome decoration
Dimensions Overall: 2.5 x 29.2 cm (1 x 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line The John Axelrod Collection
Accession Number2014.1344
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics

Signed "V.S." molded into design on front of plate and painted in green glaze, located at about 8 o'clock.
Marks "Cowan" and circular Cowan logo stamped into underside of base.
Provenance1993, purchased (along with the "Hunt" plate) by John Axelrod, Boston, MA from Susan Kosack/Of An Age gallery, Ridgewood, NJ, November 20, 1993; 2008, promised gift of Axelrod to the MFA; 2014, gift of Axelrod to the MFA. (Accession date: October 29, 2014)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.