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1790-1850
GUSN-305728
Whiteware wash basin with blue transfer-printed decoration of a manor house behind a lake with mountains and classical ruins in background. Boat with figures in foreground. Border with plumes, harebells. Part of a set with a pitcher.
washbowls
earthenware
transfer printing
Washbasin
Washbasin
FLORENTINE CHINA (accompanied by beehive in garden with ribbon bearing legend; also a five-petaled flower head)
Original To Nickels-Sortwell House (Wiscasset, Me.),
Unknown
England
4 1/2 (H), 13 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Frances Sortwell
1958.379.2
Title Pitcher Accession Number 1958.379.1
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