Pitcher
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Porcelain
DATES
ca. 1885
DIMENSIONS
3 1/4 x 3 x 1 1/2 in.
MARKINGS
transfer printed in red on bottom: crown with sword diagonally intesecting. "Belleek" above crown barely visible.
SIGNATURE
no signature
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
ACCESSION NUMBER
1990.148
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Emma and Jay Lewis
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Pitcher, porcelain, translucent white body with blue-violet glaze; raised Japonesque design with two asymmetrical floral and leafy branches emerging from top of mat-gold lobe shaped handle. Opposite side decorated with butterfly. Four gold cloud-like areas interspersed with applied designs incised into thick pigments of gold, green, and brown. Gold-edged, rounded top curves upward and inward at the center with "C"-shaped spout. Narrow round gold foot.
CONDITION - Excellent.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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