Armorial porcelain handleless teacup with straight sides and foot ring. White body with painted polychrome decoration consisting of a coat-of-arms on front with an oval gold shield and a standing lion in center, gold lion at top, all framed with foliate scrolls and flowers, outer rim of cup features a gold trefoil border.
teacups
porcelain
Chinese export
armorial (porcelain style)
Teacup
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
FD115
Unknown
2 1/2 (H), 2 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1840.1
China
Title Armorial saucer Accession Number 2006.44.1840.2
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