About the Artwork
Vessel
1985
Ruth Duckworth
1919 - 2009
Unknown
Unknown
Porcelain
Overall: 5 1/4 × 4 1/8 inches (13.3 × 10.5 cm)
Ceramics
Contemporary Art after 1950
Gift of Byron and Dorothy Gerson
2019.34
© Thea Burger
Markings
On base "R"
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On base, 16585
Provenance
by 1986, (Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). Byron and Dorothy Gerson (Franklin, Michigan, USA)
2019-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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© Thea Burger
Ruth Duckworth, Vessel, 1985, porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Byron and Dorothy Gerson, 2019.34.
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