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Stephen Goodhue Wheatland dinner service

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

ca. 1867

GUSN

GUSN-171772

Description

Chinese export porcelain dinner service in Rose Medallion pattern consisting of four alternating panels of groups of birds, flowers and butterflies, and people in a landscape scene around a gold circle enclosing a gold "SGW" monogram, border is a flower and butterfly design. Twelve butter plates; Twelve coffee cups; Fourteen demitasse cups and saucers; Thirty-five dessert plates; Thirty-six dinner plates; Two leaf shaped serving dishes; One meat platter with pierced liner; Ten assorted platters; One salad bowl; Two sauce tureens with covers; Two sauceboats; Thirty saucers; One shrimp dish; Thirty-one soup plates; Eighteen tea cups; One soup tureen with cover and stand; Six vegetable dishes; One well and tree platter.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dinner services
porcelain
famille rose
Chinese export
Set, Tableware

Inscription

"SGW" (Painted gold monogram)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

FD090

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

China

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.1806

Places

China

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