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Saucer

Object Name:
Saucer
Object ID:
1914.014.050 b
Place of Origin:
Staffordshire, England
Date:
1810-1820
Description:
Saucer. Blue transfer-printed pearlware, chinoiserie. Deep saucer, like a tea bowl. Interior bottom center design of flowers on stalks with stylized flower border. Design on interior sides: Rectangular scene of an Oriental garden, two buildings in background, tree center, two human figures (one with a parasol) and a dog right foreground, alternates with long, narrow oval filled with flowers on stalks. Exterior undecorated except for a triangle painted on the exterior bottom.
Material:
Ceramic
Earthenware - Transfer-printed
Dimensions:
H-1.4 Dia-1.4 inches
Provenance:
Ceramics collected by Martha E. Durgin (1833-1916) of Concord, NH. She began collecting in the late 1880s and donated the collection to the Society in 1914.
Credit Line:
Gift of Martha E. Durgin
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