Bowl

China

About 1920

  • Titles Bowl (Descriptive)
  • Artist China
  • Medium porcelain, Famille verte ware
  • Dimensions 4 1/4 x 11 in. Diam. (10.8 x 27.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Bequest of William M. Spencer III, AFI.236.2010
  • Work Type bowl
  • Classification Containers

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Acid effect--perhaps an etching
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