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Tea Service: Tray
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Quatrefoil shape. Celadon (grey-green) colored with squarish, liver-colored reserve panel in center. White pâte sur pâte decoration of dragonflies and butterflies in lobes with tendrils, leaves, berries and lillies of the valley surrounding reserve. Scene depicts a rabbit seated on a birds' nest floating on a pond with distant bullrushes, pulled by a duck with a strand in its beak. Gilded rim.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Anne H. and Frederick Vogel III in memory of his grandmother Mrs. Grace Dickerman Vogel
Title: Tea Service: Tray
Description:
Quatrefoil shape.
Celadon (grey-green) colored with squarish, liver-colored reserve panel in center.
White pâte sur pâte decoration of dragonflies and butterflies in lobes with tendrils, leaves, berries and lillies of the valley surrounding reserve.
Scene depicts a rabbit seated on a birds' nest floating on a pond with distant bullrushes, pulled by a duck with a strand in its beak.
Gilded rim.
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