Collection Highlights
"Columbia Demands Her Children"
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.010.1864.30
Medium:
Paper
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Child's tea set
Object Number:
2011.30.5a-h
Date:
ca. 1750
Medium:
Porcelain with overglaze enamels
Dimensions:
Each (saucer): 1 x 3 1/4 in. (2.5 x 8.3 cm)
Each (tea bowl): 1 1/4 x 2 in. (3.2 x 5.1 cm)
Each (coffee cup): 2 x 2 1/2
Inscriptions:
Dealer stickers on underside, including some printed "Philip Dubey / Baltimore"
Description:
Child's tea/coffee set (Four saucers, three tea bowls, one coffee cup); hard-paste porcelain decorated with famille rose enamels with flower clusters, diapering, and a guilloche border.
Gallery Label:
These tea wares are exquisite examples of Chinese porcelain made for the western market during the mid-18th century, before direct trade had opened up with America.
Credit Line:
Gift of Ivan C. and Marilynn Gelfman Karp
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
