PRICKLY MELON

CLIFF LEE (AMERICAN, b. 1951)
PRICKLY MELON
signed and dated 'Cliff Lee 2006' (on the underside)
glazed porcelain
11 in. (27.9 cm.) high
Executed in 2006.

Acquired from the artist by the current owners, 6 December 2008.

For an example of the same model, see Bell, N., Dietz, U.G., and Wagner, A., exhibition catalogue, History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011, Washington, D.C., 2011, pp.46-47, fig. 25.

For an example of the same model, see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Studies in Global Ceramic History, New York, 2015.

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