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Date:
1788
Object Number:
1903.12
Medium:
Silk, paint
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Tea bowl and saucer
Object Number:
1957.306kn
Date:
1770-1780
Medium:
Porcelain
Dimensions:
Part (tea bowl): 1 3/8 x 3 1/8 in. (3.5 x 7.9 cm)
Part (saucer): 1 1/8 x 4 3/4 in. (2.9 x 12.1 cm)
Description:
Porcelain tea bowl and saucer painted in an underglaze blue with a partitioned fence in a criss-cross pattern; a tree at the far right appears to have large insects in it, and a stylized flower spray at the left spreading above the fence; a painted criss-cross blue border decorates the interior rims and a small rock is the bowl center.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Edmund Astley Prentis
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
