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Lidded Box
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Lidded Box


Artist (Danish, b. 1946)
Datec. 1981
MediumPorcelain
DimensionsOverall: 4-1/2 x 4-7/16 x 4-7/16 inches (11.4 x 11.2 x 11.2 cm)
Lid: 1-1/4 x 4-7/16 x 4-7/16 inches (3.2 x 11.2 x 11.2 cm)
Box: 3-5/8 x 4-5/16 x 4-5/16 inches (9.2 x 11 x 11 cm)
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2019.206
ClassificationsDecorative Arts
Object NameCeramic
CultureNorthern European
NationalityDanish
On View
On view
Century
  • Twentieth
More Information
Signedmonogram on bottom: IW
Inscribedpainted on rim: V; painted on bottom: [three waves, Royal Copenhagen trademark]; sticker on bottom: 208; sticker on bottom: 4.4
Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: Ceramics Gallery (207), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 Danish Ceramic Design, Museum of Art, Penn State University, October 18, 1981–January 24, 1982; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, February 20–March 28, 1982; Davis and Langdale Company, New York, June 11–July 9, 1982; University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 1–November 7, 1982; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, November 24–December 19, 1982, January 18–30, 1983ProvenanceCollection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1982 from the Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 229 (ill., color). An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 16 (no. 115). [as "Covered Box," n.d.]