John Mason
X Plate

X Plate

© John Mason

X Plate
X Plate
ArtistAmerican, 1927–2019
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • X Plate
Date1956
MediumStoneware
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 9 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (23.5 × 24.8 × 5.7 cm)
Credit LineGarth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2007.970
Not on view

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Object Type
ProvenancePrivate collection; [Garth Clark Gallery]; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
Exhibition History"Abstract Expressionist Ceramics: Myth and Reality Revisited". Garth Clark Gallery, New York 1997.

"The Scholar's Eye: Contemporary Ceramics from the Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cameron Gallery, 16 May - 1 September 2008.

"Three Decades of West Coast Ceramics, 1956–1986," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 23 February - 30 June, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
"MASON" painted on reverse
"MASON" on reverse

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