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Porcelain tea cup and saucer, the deep round bowl w/ tapered sides and small handle on footed round sacer w/ upturned sides. Both trimmed w/ lines of lavender lustre decoration centered w/ black transfer print Empire scene w/ woman and child playing a paddle game (shuttlecodes?). The woman is leaning on a recamier.
teacups
saucers (plates)
porcelain
luster (textile)
transfer printing
Soft-Paste Porcelain
Luster
Transfer Printed
TEACUP AND SAUCER
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
2.125 (H), 3.25 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.153AB
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