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Plate

Made by: Maggie Howe (American)
Made for: Los Castillo (Mexican, founded in 1942)
1958-1960
Object Place: Taxco, Mexico

Medium/Technique Enamel on copper
Dimensions Overall: 7/8 x 9 3/4 in. (2.2 x 24.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Clifford S. Ackley
Accession Number2017.4433
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMetalwork

DescriptionRound plate with blue background with abstracted peacock outlined in yellow and composed of light blue, dark blue, green, and black.
Marks Inscribed on base in gold: "Maggie Howe/Los Castillo, Mexico
ProvenanceBy the 1980s, Clifford S. Ackley, Boston; 2017, gift of Ackley to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)