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1865-1890
GUSN-6544
Square flat form with gold diaper border surrounding a scene with bird on a branch, butterfly and cattails in gold, brown, green and red on white bodied ground; polychrome enamel decoration.
tile
earthenware
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Aves (class)
butterflies
cattail (material)
Earthenware
Cattail
Bird
Butterfly
TILE
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Minton Hollins & Co. (Maker)
Stoke-on-Trent, England, Staffordshire
8.125 x 8.125 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1335
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