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Description:
English pearlware mug with an applied, strap handle, decorated with a chinoiserie scene in red, green, purple, and blue. The straight-sided body has a diaper border in red with blue dots, outlined in red bands around the rim; over a garden scene with a standing young woman pointing her right hand with forefinger extended and holding the stem of a folded parasol in the crook of her left arm, surrounded by large floral sprays and a running fence in the background. There are three incised lines around the molded flat base. The strap handle is decorated with blue dots.

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

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https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+57.194

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