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Chat Group Furniture
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Image provided by donor - not for public use.

Chat Group Furniture

Artist Ruenell Foy Temps (American, 1940 - 2020)
Date1970-1974
MediumStoneware
Dimensions.1 (table): 5 1/4 × 3 × 2 1/2 inches (13.34 × 7.62 × 6.35 cm)
.2 (bigger chair): 2 7/8 × 5 × 2 1/4 inches (7.3 × 12.7 × 5.72 cm)
.3 (smaller chair): 2 7/8 × 1 3/4 × 1 3/4 inches (7.3 × 4.45 × 4.45 cm)
.4 (ottoman): 5/8 × 1 1/2 × 1 inches (1.59 × 3.81 × 2.54 cm)
Credit LineGift of the estate of Ruenell Foy Temps
Object number2025.82.5.1-4
On View
Not on view
DescriptionMiniature living room set in the form of an armchair with ottoman, side table with attached lamp and cup and smaller armchairProvenance

The artist;

By inheritance to her husband, Clifford Temps, 2020;

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.

Published References
Sheridan Hill, All I Have: Celebrating Ceramic Artist Ruenell Foy Temps, 1940-2020 (Old Fort, NC: Real Life Stories, Inc., 2021): 43 (ill).
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