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White clay body w/ bluish-white glaze. Deep circular bowl form tapering to a high circular foot ring. Simple C-shaped handle (missing). Underglaze cobalt blue painted decoration in "willow" pattern, featuring a simple grass sprig in well w/ broadly executed Canton border. Exterior decorated w/ bridge, willows and pagodas.
cups
porcelain
willow (wood)
bridges (built works)
willow (wood)
Porcelain
Bridge
Willow
Pagoda
Willow
CUP
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
2.25 x 3.875 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.178
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