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Deep circular tea bowl form with outward flaring lip; molded braid decoration around outside rim; white clay body with underglaze blue transfer print design; outdoor scene with woman inside bowl with inner border of flowers, fruit, birds, and scrolls around rim with geometric outer border; foot ring.
tea bowls
earthenware
vitrification
transfer printing
underglazing
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Aves (class)
floral patterns
fruit
scrolls (motifs)
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Staffordshire
Underglazed
Transfer Printed
Floral
Fruit
Bird
Scroll
BOWL, TEA
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
England
2.5 x 4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.663
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