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about 1875
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, Inc.
9 1/4" diameter
Cream-colored earthenware (creamware) with transfer-printed and enamel decoration
Classification: Ceramics
Culture: English (Etruria, Staffordshire)
Accession number: 2011.2118.1-2
Description: Two dinner plates, printed and painted with Japanesque figures after prints by Osaka printmaker Utagawa Kunikazu (active 1849-67), with maple leaf borders below orange rims. Impressed marks.
Provenance/Ownership History: 2002, acquired from a London antiques shop by Jill Fenichell (dealer), New York; January 2003, sold by Jill Fenichell to Thomas Michie, Brookline, MA; 2011, gift of Thomas Michie to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)
Gift of Thomas Michie