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Small Dessert Dish or Saucer
- Manufacturer: Union Porcelain Works, 1863-ca.1922
- Medium: Porcelain
- Place Manufactured: New York City, New York, USA
- Dates: ca. 1880
- Dimensions: 1 1/8 x 5 x 5 in. (2.9 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm)
- Markings: On underside: transfer-printed in yellow, "[within urn] UNION / PORCELAIN / WORKS / GREENPOINT / N.Y." and below urn "10 '85"; transfer-printed in green, "U.P.W." 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: 68.87.9
- Credit Line: Gift of Franklin Chace
- Image: Overall, 68.87.9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004
- Catalogue Description: Porcelain dessert dish or saucer, part of green and white dinner service (68.87.1-13). White porcelain with vitreous glaze, circular dish with upward curving rim. Applied decorations in gilding and green paint 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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Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum