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Description:
English pearlware small oval sauce tureen that is part of an eighteen-piece dinner service. The tureen has a removable lid and attached undertray; the saucer and lid rims have molded scalloped, green shell-edge rims and the tureen has same edging near the top. There are shell-shaped handles, and a leaf and bud finial on the lid. The tureen is painted with green and purple sprigs scattered on both the body and lid. Many examples of green shell-edge dinnerware, a type of ceramic that was often made for export to America, have been found in archaelogical excavations in Deerfield. These pieces are typical of the type of dinnerwares used by Deerfield residents in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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