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Chinese porcelain bowl; simple bird and floral decoration; blue dotted band around outside rim; dontil maroon band around inside rim.
tea bowls
glazing (coating)
painting (coating)
porcelain
tin (metal)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Aves (class)
foliation (pattern)
Porcelain
Painted
Tin Glazed
Bird
Branch
BOWL, TEA
Painted on inside surface of bowls: [Chinese symbol--see worksheet]
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Unknown
2.5 (H), 5.625 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.468.1
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