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Chop dish
Chinese export
Qianlong
mid 18th–late 18th century
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Porcelain, overglaze enamels
Dimensions
Diameter: 18.25 in.
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.820
NOT ON VIEW
DescriptionChinese for export for French market. On rim four cartouches with French arms, two with an eagle below a coronet of sunflower petals and two with a fish swimming above weeds. In the center large flowers painted in iron-red. Red flowers on back of rim. Rim chipped.
InscriptionsLabel on underside of New York retailer "Wm. H. Plummer and Co. 7-9 East 35th Street."
ProvenanceHelena Woolworth McCann (b. 1878 - d. 1938), Syosset, NY; by descent to her children, Constance (Mrs. Joseph V.) McMullan, Helena (Mrs. Winston F. C.) Guest, and Frasier McCann; 1941, lent to the MFA by the children of Mrs. McCann, through the Winfield Foundation, New York; 1951, gift of the Winfield Foundation to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 10, 1951)