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Coffeepot with cover

Chinese export to the British market
about 1780
Object Place: East Asia, China for export

Medium/Technique Hard-paste porcelain
Credit Line The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.1103a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

DescriptionPart of large dinner service made for the English market.
InscriptionsArms of Gordon
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)