Relish Dish
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
MEDIUM
Porcelain
DATES
ca. 1880
MARKINGS
On underside, transfer-printed in green: "U.P.N" above head of an eagle
SIGNATURE
no signature
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
ACCESSION NUMBER
68.87.2
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Franklin Chace
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.
CAPTION
Union Porcelain Works (1863–ca. 1922). Relish Dish, ca. 1880. Porcelain, 7 7/8 x 10 in. (20 x 25.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Franklin Chace, 68.87.2. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 68.87.2.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 68.87.2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004
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