Update Our ticketing, donations, and membership sales portal is down for scheduled maintenance on the afternoon of 4/11.
Japanese porcelain coffee cup and saucer; the cylindrical cup w/ crabstock/bamboo handle on low foot; on shallow bowled footed saucer; both w/ underglaze cobalt-blue "cracked-ice", peony pattern w/ overglaze gilt highlights and hatching.
coffee cups
saucers (plates)
porcelain
Porcelain
CUP AND SAUCER
Underglaze blue on bottom underside of each: 6-character Japanese mark (see worksheet in file for drawing).
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
2.5 (H), 2.75 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.163AB
Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].
Sign up to our newsletter for our latest news and events
