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Culture:Chinese
Title:mug
Date Made:ca. 1750
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: hard-paste porcelain, underglaze cobalt blue enamel; overglaze red enamel, gilding; silver
Place Made:China; Jingdezhen
Accession Number:  HD 2014.20.6
Credit Line:Gift of the Estate of Compton Allyn
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Tall, straight-sided, cylindrical-shaped mug with applied strap handle and scalloped silver rim, mug is horizontally molded at the base; mug is decorated in the Imari palette of underglaze blue, overglaze red, and gilding, painted in a design of gnarled branches of flowers and pomegranites (a symbol of fertility and many sons), Condition: good condition, at one time the base may have been detached and restored and perhaps refired, there are unusual black marks along the bottom rim - perhaps signs of refiring??

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

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