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White clay body w/ transparent glaze. Simple vasiform w/ slightly swelled body tapering to circular basal ring w/ slightly recessed flat bottom. Rounded shoulders tapering to indented neck and swelling to trumpet form mouth. Underglaze blue painted decoration featuring 3 wise men w/ bonsai plants under a pine tree.
vases
porcelain
figure- and animal-derived motifs
men (male humans)
Porcelain
Men
Bonsai
VASE
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
7.75 x 4.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.159
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