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Description:
English bone china 20-piece teaset, including a teapot, waste bowl, creamer, 1 plate, 9 cups, and 7 saucers. Each is decorated with a black glue-bat transfer printing with black enamel lines of pastoral scenes of deer, burros, peasants, cow, steer, a boy riding a goat. According to family tradition, this teaset was originally purchased by a sea-going ancester of the donor, Martha A. Hewitt, from Kennebunkport, Maine prior ro the War of 1812. It was handed down intact to the eldest daughters in the family, until the donor's grandmother divided it among four daughters.

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

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