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Cup and Saucer
Chinese export
around 1800-1810
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Porcelain, colored enamels, gilding
Dimensions
3.02 cm (1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.858a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionChinese for export, British or American market. Sides curve to small baseband. Cup has small scroll handle. Border in browns and gold, farm scenes and figures. Sepia medallion in center of saucer and front of cup, depicting a country house in a landscape painted in sepia tones on a sepia background. Gilt borders
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)