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Gravy Boat ("American Modern" Dinnerware)

Gravy Boat ("American Modern" Dinnerware), 1937

Steubenville Pottery, American, 1879 - 1960
Russel Wright, American, 1904 - 1976

Glazed earthenware

Overall: 2 3/8 × 3 3/4 × 10 3/8 inches (6 × 9.5 × 26.4 cm)

Gift of Jerome M. and Patricia J. Shaw and Susann and Larry Spilkin

1984.69

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American Art before 1950

1984-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hennessey, William J. Russel Wright, American Designer. Cambridge, MA, 1983, p. 54.

Russel Wright; Steubenville Pottery, Gravy Boat ("American Modern" Dinnerware), 1937, glazed earthenware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Jerome M. and Patricia J. Shaw and Susann and Larry Spilkin, 1984.69.