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Tea service

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

ca. 1760

GUSN

GUSN-172878

Description

Partial armorial porcelain tea service consisting of three teacups, two coffee cups, six tea saucers, two coffee saucers, a dessert plate, and a shallow bowl. All have white bodies with painted blue and gold decoration of dots and foliage bunches, coat-of-arms features two birds holding a branch enclosed within three circles of dots, lines and swags.

Details

Descriptive Terms

tea services
porcelain
Chinese export
armorial (porcelain style)
Service, Tea

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

FD115

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.1846

Places

China

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