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Dinner plate

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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

18th century

GUSN

GUSN-173060

Description

Porcelain dinner plate with a serpentine shaped edge in a blue and white Nanking pattern. Central landscape scene featuring a river, houses and a bridge, framed with a diaper pattern band, rim decorated with butterlies over patterned designs.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dinner plates
porcelain
Chinese export
Plate, Dinner

Pattern

NANKING

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

FD114

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1 (H), 9 1/2 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.1835

Places

China

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