On View
Not on viewSaucer
Date1740-1760
Terms
- Saucers
- Porcelain
- China
Dimensions7.61 × 10.15 cm (3 × 4 in.)
Object numberC0010B
DescriptionC10 a-d: Two cups (no handles) with matching saucers, Chinese design and style. Decoration: line drawings in blue under the glaze. Each piece has three delicately executed landscape drawings, showing Chinese figures, trees, pagodas, etc. Herring-bone border. Arlene Palmer dated these on the basis of similarities with pieces excavated from a shipwreck in the St. Lawrence known to have occured in 1760.
Object number: M2138AV
Inc. Tichnor Bros.
Early 1900s
