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Dessert plate

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

GUSN

GUSN-202586

Description

Purple and white stoneware dessert plate of an Italian Villa. The edge is scalloped and the border is floral with the villa scene on the inside of the plates. The scene is of a little girl with a vase and in the background is a building.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dessert plates
stoneware (pottery)
Plate, Dessert

Inscription

"Italian / Villas / J.H. & Co." (
Purple cursive inside a scroll and floral design)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3/4 x 1/2 (HxD), 6 3/4 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.3033.1

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