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Deep circular form with conforming footring and rice pattern sides; handpainted underglaze in deep blue with a floral spray within concentric rings at the face and a stylized band of of devices below the rim; the exterior has a band of trellis diaper below the rim and a band of ancestral 'objects' and ribbons above the foot ring; the overall glaze is Celadon blue.
bowls (vessels)
painting (coating)
porcelain
underglazing
Porcelain
Underglazed
Painted
BOWL, RICE
Chinese characters are painted freehand on the bottom of the bowl.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2.25 (H), 4.5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1008
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