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Bowl is a deep, circular form with rice pattern at the sides and a tall foot ring decorated freehand in a medium blue with a floral spray at the center; the floral spray is within concentric circles; the exterior has a trellis diaper band below the rim and there are leaves encircling the footring; there is an allover pale blue glaze.
bowls (vessels)
painting (image-making)
hand-painted
porcelain
underglazing
Porcelain
Underglazed
Painted
BOWL, RICE
On the bottom of the bowl, handpainted under glaze are Chinese characters.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2.25 (H), 4.5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1007
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