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Culture:Chinese
Title:bowl
Date Made:ca. 1740
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: soft paste porcelain, overglaze polychrome enamels, gilding
Place Made:China
Measurements:overall: 2 7/8 x 6 x 6 1/2 in.; 7.3025 x 15.24 x 16.51 cm
Accession Number:  HD 58.273
Credit Line:Gift of Helen Geier Flynt
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Chinese export porcelain bowl 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. This bowl would have had a cover.

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

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