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Culture:Chinese
Title:platter
Date Made:ca. 1790
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: hard paste porcelain, overglaze polychrome enamels
Place Made:China
Measurements:overall: 1 1/4 in x 11 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in; 3.175 cm x 28.575 cm x 24.13 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2767
Credit Line:Gift of Helen Geier Flynt
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Chinese export porcelain oval platter with a scalloped edge, decorated in the Famille rose palette with a "dancing" rooster with its wings outspread and perched on its left leg with a leafless branch behind in the center well. The rooster is surrounded by five swags with a center rose, each topped with a pink bow set on the pink band running around the center rim. The rim edge has a light brown glaze.

Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain

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