Collection Highlights
Oud en nieuw Oost-Indiën... Volume 5, part 1 (deel 5, stuk 1)
Date:
1724-1726
Object Number:
LIB.Y.1724.V
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Tea bowl and saucer
Object Number:
1957.306ef
Date:
1775-1785
Medium:
Porcelain
Dimensions:
Part (saucer): 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Part (tea bowl): 1 3/4 x 3 in. (4.4 x 7.6 cm)
Marks:
painted: on bowl: hatched crescent
painted: on saucer: hatched crescent, enclosing the letter L
Description:
Porcelain tea bowl and saucer printed with "Mother and Child" pattern; the bowl exterior and saucer interior showing an oriental lady seated on a platform and standing child surrounded by large decorated vases and pedestals holding fruit and flowers ; the rims are painted in blue ; the tea bowl center interior is printed with a flower.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Edmund Astley Prentis
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
