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1936

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1996

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Drawing, Design for a Teapot (elevation)

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1936 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is pen and black, brown ink, brown crayon, graphite on cream tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra.

Its dimensions are

19.6 x 26.6 cm (7 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in black ink, lower center: THEIERE; lower right: J.P./36/PENTAGONE; in graphite, upper right center: perles de la grosseur du bois; upper left: very faint numerical equations

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Teapot (elevation); France; pen and black, brown ink, brown crayon, graphite on cream tracing paper; 19.6 x 26.6 cm (7 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.); Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra; 1995-164-62

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