Collection Highlights
Slant-front desk
Date:
1777-1794
Object Number:
1947.461
Medium:
Mahogany
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bowls (2)
Object Number:
S-247.3ab
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Porcelain, rattan
Dimensions:
Overall (tea bowl): 3 3/4 × 2 in. (9.5 × 5.1 cm)
Overall (saucer): 5 × 1 1/8 in. (12.7 × 2.9 cm)
Description:
Tea bowl and saucer painted along interiors in green, red, pink, yellow, and gold. Saucer is ornamented with chrysanthemum flowers and foliage arch and with small parrot; tea bowl has interior decoration of colorful phoenix opposite spray of peonies, daisies, and foliage. Exteriors of both bowls are mounted in thin rattan baskets woven around peripheries.
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
