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Pearlware tea bowl of tapered cylindrical form molded w/ vertical swirl sides and cut-scalloped rim; on high straight foot rim; hand painted in polychrome enamels w/ flowers and scrolling wavy border in red and blue inside and out; imitation Chinese export.
tea bowls
enamel paint
glazing (coating)
painting (image-making)
hand-painted
pearlware
tin (metal)
Federal
Pearlware
Enamel
Painted
Tin Glazed
Federal
BOWL, TEA
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
2.125 (H), 3.125 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.160
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