Bowl
- Object Name:
- Bowl
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.124
- Place of Origin:
- China
- Date:
- 1785-1800
- Description:
- Bowl. Chinese Porcelain; Hemispherical bowl with slightly ribbed side and scalloped rim. Painted polychrome decoration, outlined at top of inner surface with a blue band below, which is a gilt and blue serrated border with trailing dots. Top of outer surface decorated with a string of alternating blue and gilt elements. Central crest-like design obverse and reverse; blue and gilt, oval frame with serrated edge dotted with start and oriented horizontally. Two gray birds in center, facing one another, on red and gilt base. Matching plate.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Porcelain - Dimensions:
- H-2.5 Dia-5.5 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
- People:
- Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916)
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