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Tea Bowl Tea Bowl

This is a tea bowl. It was manufactured by Royal Worcester. It is dated ca. 1770 and we acquired it in 1969. Its medium is soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 4 × 7.6 cm (1 9/16 in. × 3 in.)

It has the following markings

Underside: [1] crescent or "C", painted in underglaze blue (Royal Worcester manufactory mark)

It is signed

Unsigned

It is inscribed

Uninscribed

Cite this object as

Tea Bowl Tea Bowl; Manufactured by Royal Worcester (England, GB, United Kingdom); soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel; H x diam.: 4 × 7.6 cm (1 9/16 in. × 3 in.); 1969-101-1

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