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Culture:Chinese
Title:coffee cup
Date Made:ca. 1740
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: soft paste porcelain, overglaze polychrome enamels, gilding
Place Made:China
Accession Number:  HD 56.345.1
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Chinese export porcelain molded coffee cup decorated with applied flowers and vines. David Howard notes that this type of decoration would have been expensive to produce, but was in fashion. The technique was used principally on export ware between 1730 and 1745.

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