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Relish Dish

Manufacturer: Union Porcelain Works, 1863-ca.1922
Medium: Porcelain
Place Manufactured: New York City, New York, USA
Dates: ca. 1880
Dimensions: 7 7/8 x 10 in. (20 x 25.4 cm)
Markings: On underside, transfer-printed in green: "U.P.N" above head of an eagle
Signature: no signature
Inscriptions: no inscriptions
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 68.87.2
Credit Line: Gift of Franklin Chace
Image: Overall, 68.87.2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004

Catalogue Description: Porcelain relish dish, part of green and white dinner service (68.87.1-13). White porcelain with vitreous glaze, shell-shaped dish with deep bowl; end of shell form curves upward and serves as handle. Applied decorations in gilding and green paint: ivy leaves below handle; around rim, gilded band and border of ribbon and tassel design interspersed with three roundels containing stylized fleur-de-lis. CONDITION: Good.

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