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Dish

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

GUSN

GUSN-174555

Description

Small porcelain dish with three legs and a long handle. Looks like a skillet with legs. Decorated inside and out with floral motifs, pink being the predominant color. The central motif is a pink rose or peony with smaller purple daisies and morning glories and tiny blue flowers. The outline of an acorn is impressed into the bottom of the dish.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dishes (vessels)
porcelain
Dish

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1 5/8 x 6 1/4 x 4 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.3026.1

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