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1850-1899
GUSN-6059
Handpainted polychrome and light blue underglaze decoration; gilded line on rim and cavetto; rim with painted border of butterflies, floral sprigs, fruit bunches, lady bugs, grass hoppers; sprigs tied with blue ribbons; well of plate shows Far Eastern domestic courtyard scene in polychrome decoration.
dinner plates
painting (image-making)
hand-painted
porcelain
underglazing
figure- and animal-derived motifs
butterflies
courts (social groups)
home (concept)
floral patterns
fruit
grasshoppers (animals)
beetles (insects)
Porcelain
Painted
Underglazed
Butterfly
Fruit
Ladybug
Grasshopper
Sprig
Court Scene
Domesticity
Manderin
PLATE, DINNER
Manderin
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
China
1 (H), 8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1116
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