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Drum shaped body with straight spout; applied twisted double strap handle with leafy terminals; central overglaze en grisailled decoration of floral sprigs encircled by chain motif band; shoulder decorated with spearhead border; gilt highlights; white clay body wtih white glaze.
teapots
porcelain
enameling
gilding
grisaille
Teapot
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
China
4 5/16 (H), 4 3/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.410.1
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