The rounded saucer has a finely potted white ground hand painted with polychrome enamels in free form floral butterfly design with gilded edges. It has a cylindrical foot ring and gently sloping sides.
saucers (plates)
porcelain
enameling
gilding
painting (image-making)
hand-painted
figure- and animal-derived motifs
butterflies
floral patterns
Porcelain
Gilded
Enameled
Painted
Floral
Butterfly
SAUCER
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
Japan
4.25 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.122B
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