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Modified club-shaped form; applied seahorse handles. White clay body with underglaze cobalt blue decoration. Handpainted scene of three Japanese scholars or wise men sitting below a tree. Circular bottom without foot ring.
vases
porcelain
glazing (coating)
painting (image-making)
hand-painted
tin (metal)
Orientalism
scholars
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Hippocampus (genus)
Porcelain
Seahorse
Tin Glazed
Painted
Orientalism
Scholar
VASE
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
15.5 x 7.875 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.408
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