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Porcelain soup plate in blue and white Nanking pattern consisting of a central river scene with pagodas, trees, boats and a bridge framed with a curlicue border and an abstract floral and geometric pattern design on rim.
soup plates
porcelain
Chinese export
Plate, Soup
"[illegible] / 23/7/19 / CP. 5. x.x [illegible] / SP. 0/x / each" (Difficult to read handwriting)
NANKING
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
FD123
Unknown
1 1/2 (H), 9 1/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1905.3
China
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