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Circular bowl with sides tapering to high foot ring; white clay body with "rice pattern" oval piercings filled with bluish glaze; overglaze enamal central decoration in blue, white, green and red; gilt and enameled diapered exterior rim; interior rim with H-shaped banding; interior with floral spray with gilt and red scroll border; blue petal motif radiates from exterior foot; all identical except .9 has red petal at foot.
tea bowls
porcelain
enameling
gilding
overglazing
grain patterns
Porcelain
Overglazed
Gilded
Enameled
Rice Grain
TEACUP
Four Chinese character marks on bottom of each.
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
China
2.25 (H), 2.938 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.858.6
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