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Saucer

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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

ca. 1900

GUSN

GUSN-198606

Description

Porcelain tea saucer with white body and a blue cobalt band border flanked by two gold laurel leaf pattern borders.

Details

Descriptive Terms

saucers (plates)
porcelain
Saucer

Inscription

"C/A/FRANCE" (Glaze mark)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Maker

Charles Ahrendfeldt & Son
Richard Briggs Co. (Retailer)

Dimensions

.5 (H), 4.25 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.1958.9

Places

Massachusetts (United States)
Limoges (Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

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