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Covered Milk Jug or Coffeepot
Made at: Meissen Manufactory (Germany)
German
1720–25, decorated about 1735–40
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration
Dimensions
13.0 x 11.3 x 8.3 cm (5 1/8 x 4 7/16 x 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2003a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionDecorated in Holland, about 1725-40. The pear-shaped jug has a scroll-shaped handle and slightly domed cover with a simple knop. The body is painted on each side with an Oriental boy wearing a turquoise tunic and orange trousers holding a flowering branch and with flowering bamboo and branches on a patch of turquoise ground to the right. Sprays of flowers in iron red, turquoise, blue, and gold decorate the spout, handle and cover. The rim of the cover is painted iron red.
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)