Small, footed earthenware bowl with "flow blue" transfer-printed pattern "Scinde." Floral border around interior rim. Repeating scene of flowering tree surrounded by water, a figure carrying a flag toward a pagoda on exterior and interior basin.
slop bowls
bowls (object components)
earthenware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
flow blue (ceramic glaze)
Chinoiserie
Bowl, Serving
Flow blue
Floral Border
Pagoda
Willow
Tree
Orientalism
Scinde
Bowl, Serving
"SCINDE" (printed)
Unknown
3 1/4 (H), 6 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Isaac Sprague
1934.659
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