Armorial porcelain handleless tea bowl with foot ring. White body and painted polychrome deocration consisting of two coat-of-arms of gold shields with two blue lions surrounded by scrolls and flowers and green face at top, gold and red trefoil border along inner rim of bowl.
tea bowls
porcelain
Chinese export
armorial (porcelain style)
Bowl, Tea
"c. 1745 / Dickinson / [pound symbol] 2.2.0" (handwritten)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
FD119
Unknown
2 (H), 4 1/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1875
China
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