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Saucer

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

GUSN

GUSN-199943

Description

White porcelain saucer with gold painted flower buds, leaves and vines. In the center is a single flower bed on a stem with three leaves.

Details

Descriptive Terms

saucers (plates)
porcelain
Saucer

Inscription

"PL / S MODERN" (Modern is written under a green badge like image that has a white bar across it diagonally. To the top left of the badge imge we see "PL" and in the bottome right we have "S".)
"A / Austria" (he A is written with a line beneath it making its identity as an A questionable. Except that "Austria" is written in black cursive under the "A".)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Maker

Ovington Brothers (Manufacturer)

Location of Origin

Austria

Dimensions

.25 (H), 5.25 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.3059.3

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