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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

ca. 1840

GUSN

GUSN-4969

Description

White bodies with underglaze "flow blue" transfer print design in "SCINDE" pattern depicting pseudo-Oriental temple in landscape; foliate bands at rims; circular 12-faceted body with shallow well.

Details

Descriptive Terms

plates (dishes)
ironstone (pottery)
transfer printing
underglazing
Orientalism
Ironstone
Transfer Printed
Underglazed
Scinde
Orientalism
PLATE

Pattern

Scinde

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

Alcock, John & George (Maker)

Location of Origin

Cobridge, England, Staffordshire

Dimensions

7.25 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.406.13

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