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Teapot with cover
Chinese for export
1790–1800
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain with gilding
Dimensions
Legacy dimension: H: 5 1/2" W: 9 1/4" Diam: 4 15/16"
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Alice Wilder Smith
Accession Number67.704a-b
NOT ON VIEW
DescriptionDrum-shaped teapot with vertical sides and angular straight spout, twisted ribbon handle with four leaf and flower terminals, strawberry finial. Decorated with gold bands and the sides with initials "SAA"
InscriptionsMonogram "SAA" in gold on side of teapot.
ProvenanceProbably Samuel (b. 1788 - d. 1863) and Atlanta Aspinwall (b. 1793 - d. 1861), Boston; 1863, by inhetitance to their daughter Helen Elizabeth Smith (b. 1833 - d. 1902); 1902, by inheritance to her daughter Alice Wilder Smith (b. 1877 - d. 1967); 1967, bequest of Alice Wilder Smith to MFA.