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Bowl

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1700-1750

GUSN

GUSN-173404

Description

Porcelain bowl with famille verte enamel decoration with a central scene of a tree with flowers and nesting birds, surrounded by a border of sprays of flowers and bells and an other border with flowers over a green ground with reserves enclosing grasshoppers and moths.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bowls (vessels)
porcelain
Chinese export
famille verte
Bowl

Pattern

FAMILLE VERTE

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3 (H), 11 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.1936

Places

China

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