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Ceramic cup with straight sides and slightly flared rim. Pale purple exterior glaze with aqua interior glaze. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark scratched into bottom.
cups
clay
Cup
Butterfly shaped marked (Butterfly mark used by Nannie Borden Phillips)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963 (Maker)
3 1/2 (H), 3 5/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.2248
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