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Molded, white clay body w/ blue pearl glaze. Three stilt marks on front and back. Circular plate form w/ dished rim, pronounced cavetto and deep well. Underglaze blue transfer printed decoration from series "Oriental Scenery/ Mahomedan Mosque & Tomb/ I. Hall" (Marked in blue). Central scene of middle-eastern mosque w/ camel in foreground. Rim w/ elaborate naturalistic floral and fruit border flanked by a small leaf and Gothic "keyhole" secondary border.
dinner plates
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
tin (metal)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Camelus (genus)
mosques (buildings)
landscapes (representations)
Asian
Tin Glazed
Mosque
Transfer Printed
Camel
Oriental Scenery
PLATE, DINNER
See description.
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Mahomedan Mosque & Tomb
Hall & Sons, John (Maker)
Burslem, England, Staffordshire
9.875 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.173
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