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Pedestal dish

AD 550-700
Object PlacePanama
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware with purple, red and black on cream slip paint
DimensionsOverall: 14 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Timothy Phillips in honor of Dennis Carr
Accession number2019.1989
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceBetween about 1963 and 1979, acquired in Panama by Dr. Glenn E. Murphy (b. 1922 – d. 2010), Balboa, Panama and New Smyrna Beach, FL [see note]; about 2000, sold by Dr. Murphy to Dr. Alan Grinnell, Los Angeles; 2014, sold by Dr. Grinnell to Anthropos Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; 2014, sold by Anthropos Gallery to Timothy Phillips, Boston; 2019, gift of Timothy Phillips to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 2019)

NOTE: Dr. Glen Murphy was an educator for the Panama Canal Zone government, who resided in Panama beginning in 1963. He had previously been there for the State Department as early as the 1950s. Dr. Murphy moved back to the United States with his household goods, including his collection of ceramics, in 1979.
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