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Gilded domed foot with rounded stem supports rectangular pierced, leafy, scrolled frame; encloses white porcelain lithophane. Scene shows figures gathered around large domed basket (?) trying to capture putti. At center n man holds a putti by wings. Above basket, sprawled putti flies with string tied to foot.
table screens
table linens
brass (alloy)
gilding
lithophanes
piercing
porcelain
tin (metal)
mythology (literary genre)
putti (motifs)
Porcelain
Tin
Brass
Gilded
Lithophane
Mythology
Classical Figure
Putti
Pierced
SCREEN, TABLE
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Plaue Porzellanmanufaktur (Maker)
Plaue-on-Havel, Germany, Thuringia
13.063 x 5.188 (HxD), 4.25 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.345
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