Vase

Inscription: Signed (on underside, incised): MG

the designer (1940; sold through the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts to MMA)

Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts. "Ninth National Ceramics Exhibition," October 13–November 3, 1940, no. 154.

Syracuse, N.Y. Everson Museum of Art. "A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1878–1978," May 5–September 23, 1979, no. 129 (pl. 151).

New York. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture. "Women Designers in the U.S.A., 1900–2000: Diversity and Difference," November 15, 2000–February 25, 2001, no. 72.

C. L[ouise]. A[very]. "Notes." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 36 (March 1941), pp. 78–79, ill.

"Art Potter of the Month: Maija Grotell." Ceramic Age 54 (August 1949), p. 124, ill.

Martin Eidelberg in Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision 1925–1950. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1983, colorpl. 54.

R. Craig Miller. Modern Design in The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1890–1990. New York, 1990, p. 181, ill. (color).

Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and Martin Eidelberg. Gifts from the Fire: American Ceramics, 1880–1950. From the Collection of Martin Eidelberg. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2021, p. 167, fig. 52 (color).

"Maija Grotell." The Marks Project: The Dictionary of American Studio Ceramics, 1946 Onward. Online resource [themarksproject.org/marks/grotell], [last modified June 5, 2023], ill. (color, overall and details of signature).

Glenn Adamson in Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within. Ed. Glenn Adamson, Dakin Hart, and Kate Wiener. Exh. cat., Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. New York, 2024, p. 7, fig. 8 (reproduction of Ref. Ceramic Age 1949).