Collection Highlights
Study of Four Tree Trunks (Three Birches)
ca. 1855
1918.325
Graphite with scratching out on beige paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Saucers
Object name
Saucers
Date
1790-1820;1815-1827
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
Overall: 1 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. ( 2.9 x 15.6 cm )
Description
Molded porcelain tea set consisting of twenty-four saucers; all pieces are hand painted with blue scalloped borders with sets of two peach flowers and gold outlines with gold stylized floral and foliate sprays, grapes, palmettes; holloware forms have additional band of undulating vine with leaves and flowers, in gold and gold flourishes on handles.
Credit Line
Bequest of Mary MacKaye Greenwood
Object Number
1969.11k.1-24
Marks
printed: in red on base in script: "Spode/3904"
printed: in red on base in print: "Spode/3904"
printed: in lavendar on base: "Spode/[enclosed within two floral sprays]Felspar/Porcelain/and in red "3904"
Gallery Label
According to the donor, the tea se