Partial orange tea service Object.

Format:

Image

Contributor:

Nantucket Historical Association, owner.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Bowls (Tableware).

Enamel and enameling.

Exports.

Fashion.

Flowers.

Porcelain.

Tea.

Teapots.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Production:

[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], [approximately 1850]

Summary:

Porcelain decorated in underglaze orange with gilding. Decorated in a butterfly and flower pattern, this is typical of the more elaborately decorated export porcelains that returned to the island during the middle decades of the nineteenth century.

Notes:

Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from 'From Brant Point to the Boca Tigris: Nantucket and the China Trade' by Michael A Jehle, Nantucket Historical Association, 1994.

Title from publisher's website.