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Tea Plate

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1910-1920

GUSN

GUSN-50956

Description

Of small form with a scalloped edge on a slightly canted rim. It has a transfer print of a wide turquoise band overprinted with a gilt ivy vine and a trefoil border. It has a gilt Greek key band on the face enclosing a floral medallion. The rim has a gilt edge.

Details

Descriptive Terms

plates (dishes)
porcelain
gilding
transfer printing
ceramic (material)
Porcelain
Gilded
Transfer Printed
Unidentified Ceramic
PLATE

Inscription

Printed on the bottom, inside a darkened enamel laurel wreath with a bowknot, in dark red enclosing a ""W"" over ""Austria"". Painted in the overglaze in green is: 45.

Associated Building

Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

Austria

Dimensions

6 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Amelia W. Little

Accession Number

1986.566

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