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Two-Handled Covered Cup
Made at: Chantilly Manufactory (France)
French
about 1730–40
Medium/Technique
Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels
Dimensions
Overall: 7.1 x 9.8 x 7.3 cm (2 13/16 x 3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.1932a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionCup and cover. Soft paste. Double handled pail shaped cup, convex moldings at base middle and rim. Cover and cup decorated with 'Korean' motifs of bale of hay and little flowers with 5 petals; matching cover with leaf and flowers finial over round hole. No mark.
Marks
none
ProvenanceForsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)