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Cup and sacuer
Chinese export
around 1790
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Porcelain, colored enamels, gilding
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.1047a-b
NOT ON VIEW
DescriptionChinese for export. Cylindrical coffee cup, scroll handle with scroll. Saucer, flat bottom & flaring sides. Gold etched border with four wide sepia landscape insets & four short red landscape insets, all in very scrolled borders. Under red insets wide insets with birds, under sepia narrow insets with landscapes. All in brown diaper border & within a gilded band. In center shield of arms of Hamond with crest. Pair with 51.1048a-b. Set with 51.1034-1056.
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)