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Coffee cup

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

After 1891

GUSN

GUSN-173463

Description

Porcelain coffee cup with a circle handle in a blue and white Canton design with a river landscape scene around the exterior of the body and a rain and cloud pattern border along inner rim.

Details

Descriptive Terms

coffee cups
porcelain
Chinese export
Canton (Chinese painting style)
Cup, Coffee

Inscription

"CHINA" (Blue glaze mark)

Pattern

CANTON

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

FD145

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

2 1/2 (H), 4 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.2946

Places

China

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