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Ladle

Chinese export
18th century
Object Place: East Asia, China for export

Medium/Technique Porcelain, colored enamels, gilding; fruitwood.
Dimensions Length: 6 × 7.6 × 35.6 cm (2 3/8 × 3 × 14 in.)
Credit Line The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.819
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

DescriptionPorcelain bowl has straight sides curving to flat bottom, impressed flutings and scrolls: cylindrical socket for turned wooden handle. Line of gold between red on rim and socket, flowers in naturalistic colors outside, single rose inside.
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)