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ca. 1850
GUSN-12179
16) Tea bowl or rice bowl. Design similar to 1971.979.1, but a deeper blue decoration. Set) White clay body with bluish-white glaze; Nanking style underglaze blue painted border design consisting of spearhead border with cross hatch or diagonal line banding; central or overall design of various versions of "Willow" pattern consisting of pagoda house at proper right (w/ or w/o people), trees in center, some with bridges, birds or boats.
tea bowls
porcelain
underglazing
Chinese
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Nanking
Willow
Underglazed
Pagoda
BOWL, TEA
Willow
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
China
2.188 (H), 6.188 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.979.16
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