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DEACESSIONED April 25, 2013
Covered vegetable dish
Chinese Export
about 1785-1800
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 Number51.931a-b
DescriptionChinese for export. Slightly bulbous sides, shaped at corners, flat unglazed bottom. Gold twined handles, foliage on body at ends. Shaped & domed cover has gilded cone finial. Set with 483-554.41. 501 had modeling on cone; edge of cover chipped.
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, Deaccession Date: April 24, 2013)