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Culture:American
Title:paperweight
Date Made:mid 19th century
Type:Household Accessory
Materials:ceramic: porcelain, white enamel, gilding
Place Made:United States; Vermont; Bennington
Measurements:overall: 2 7/8 in x 3 7/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 7.3025 cm x 9.8425 cm x 6.35 cm
Accession Number:  HD P.342
Credit Line:Lucius D. Potter Memorial Collection
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Porcelain eagle paperweight facing right with outspread wings, which is covered in white with gilt accents on rectangular base. There are traces of a gilt American shield on the eagle's breast, and the gilt-accented molded talons have an olive branch in the right and sheaf of arrows in the left. Condition: firing crack on tail Potter Inv. #156.

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