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Circular form with wide rim curving inward to form shallow well; underglaze blue, overglaze iron-red and gilt decoation in Japanese Imari palette with central medallion of chrysanthemums; cavetto border diapered with trellis design and for reserves of small chrysanthemums; rim decorated wtih four groups of flowering branches; centers of flowers and leaf outlines gilded; two oriental stylized motifs in blue on inner side of rim; brown edge.
dinner plates
porcelain
gilding
overglazing
underglazing
Imari
Dish, Eating
Plate, Food
Plate, Dinner
Plate, Dinner
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Battle of Louisburg
Unknown
China
1 (H), 8 15/16 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.405.6
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