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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
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

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)