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Culture:Chinese
Title:saucer
Date Made:1790-1810
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: hard-paste porcelain, overglaze cobalt blue, red, and black enamel, gilding
Place Made:China; made in Jingdezhen; decorated in Guangzhou (Canton)
Accession Number:  HD 2015.36.14
Credit Line:Anonymous bequest
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Small, shallow saucer, with wiped footrim, saucer is decorated with overglaze enamels in blue, black, red, and gold; the narrow border along the rim alternates stars with dots, then a dot border, in the center there is a border of four dots and a sprig or husk; the central decoration is an ermine shield with blue colored mantling, a flower is in the center. According to a paper label on the reverse of the suacer, written by the owner, "Stephen III/ Salisbury/ Lowestoft/E.E.M." Supposed owned by the Salisbury family or Stephen Salisbury III (1835-1905) of Salisbury Mansion in Worcester, MA Given that this porcelain was made c. 1790-1810, it is more likely to have been owned by an earlier generation of Salisburys, perhaps Stephen Salisbury I (1746-1829).

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