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Plate
Chinese Export
around 1720-1735
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain, colored enamels, gilding
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.908
NOT ON VIEW
DescriptionRim has flowers, scrolls & cherubs, with panel inscribed "Mat.3.16". Ornamented in iron-red & gold with the Baptism of Jesus by St. John the Baptist in center. Rim chipped.
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)