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Fruit dish
Chinese export
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Porcelain
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.1004
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionFruit dish, one of a pair with 51.1003. Slightly curving sides, flat bottom, upper part has lattice piercing, polychrome dots & lines outside with lower third in basket weave. Pattern inside: guilloche design of mulberry & rosebuds, orange lines & frets, cornucopia of flowers & flower sprigs in center. Rope molded rim & simulated handles flat at sides.
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)