Porcelain dinner plate with in a blue and white Imperial Nanking pattern. Central scene features a woman carrying a baskety followed by a small boy holding a fish in front of a willow tree, scene framed with a chain of double curlicues, rim decorated with butterlies and abstract flowers, outer rim painted gold.
dinner plates
porcelain
Chinese export
Plate, Dinner
IMPERIAL NANKING
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
FD114
Unknown
7/8 (H), 8 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1834
China
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