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Plate, hand thrown construction. White clay body with white or colorless glaze. Cleaned foot ring. Circular form with wide rim canting to shallow well. Underglaze blue crosshatch band with gilt spearhead border at rim and at cavetto. Overglaze blue enamel and gilt decoration at center of swagged ermine enclosing a shield with the monogram "AQ".
plates (dishes)
porcelain
Dish, Eating
Plate, Food
Plate, Dinner
Plate, Dinner
Quincy, Abigail Phillips, 1803-1893
Shaw, Thomas
Original to Josiah Quincy House (Quincy, Mass.),
Unknown
7 5/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Edmund Quincy
1972.26AB
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