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Maker(s):Bow Factory
Culture:British (1747-1776)
Title:Saucer
Date Made:1752-1755
Type:Food Service
Materials:Ceramic: soft-paste porcelain; underglaze cobalt blue decoration
Place Made:Great Britain: Greater London, London
Measurements:Overall: 7/8 x 4 5/8 in; 2.2 x 11.7 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2023.28.1
Credit Line:Gift of Anne K. Groves
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Circular soft-paste porcelain saucer with underglaze cobalt blue painted decoration, painted in pale underglaze-blue with a flowering peony plant and a chrysanthemum growing on either side of a tall scholar’s rock rising from two low pierced rocks below. Condition: Wear to the glaze in the center and on the rim edge; faint speckling; and the rim with two minuscule chips.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Porcelain

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