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Circular, shallow-footed body with scalloped edge; shallow cavetto descending to poorly defined circular well; underglaze blue and green; overglaze iron red; gilt and pink lustre decoration in floral sprigs and large blossoms in "Gaudy Dutch" tradition; lustre bands at shoulder and foot.
cake plates (serving vessels)
gilding
overglazing
porcelain
soft paste porcelain
underglazing
floral patterns
Dutch
Soft-Paste Porcelain
Porcelain
Underglazed
Overglazed
Gilded
Gaudy Dutch
Floral
PLATE, CAKE
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
England
8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.557.14
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