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One of a pair of vases with deep orange enameled vignettes with gilt accents on white ground. White clay body with colorless glaze. Vasi or gallipot form with globular body and defined shoulders. Slightly tapered out at mouth. Vase decorated with gilt stylized floral devices and a feathered border at neck, with mid-eastern tri-lobed border devices at mouth. Four scenic reserves featuring young men in various activities (possibly scenes from Ginji?). Neck has been cut down.
vases
porcelain
Vase
Original To Josiah Quincy House (Quincy, Mass.),
Unknown
China
6 1/2 (H) (inches)
Gift of Edmund Quincy
1972.29B
1820 (circa)
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