Collection Highlights
Old Christmas : from the Sketch book of Washington Irving
Date:
1878
Object Number:
LIB.PS2069.C4
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Tea bowl and saucer
Object Number:
1957.306op
Date:
1770-1790
Medium:
Porcelain
Dimensions:
Part (tea bowl): 2 x 3 1/4 in. (5.1 x 8.3 cm)
Part (saucer): 1 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. (3.5 x 13 cm)
Description:
Porcelain tea bowl and saucer printed inunderglaze blue with the "Birds In Branches" pattern which arew two oversized birds in a tree and thre airborne with rocks in background; the bowl interior center is printed with a bird on a tree.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Edmund Astley Prentis
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
