Advanced Search 
Plate
Chinese Export
about 1765
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Diameter: 9 in.
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.921
NOT ON VIEW
DescriptionPortuguese market. Saldanha service. Pair with 51.923
Painted in famillie rose enamels in the center with an animal leg against a roundel of green and yellow foliage, surrounded by fish, game, fruits and vegetables within a rococo shell border, the shaped rim with the coat-of-arms of Dom Gaspar de Saldanha e Albuquerque, a banner inscribed "SALDANHA," the broken inscrition "DE AL BU QUER QUE," and panels depicting a hunter and a fisherman, all joined by ribbon-tied floral swags.
Painted in famillie rose enamels in the center with an animal leg against a roundel of green and yellow foliage, surrounded by fish, game, fruits and vegetables within a rococo shell border, the shaped rim with the coat-of-arms of Dom Gaspar de Saldanha e Albuquerque, a banner inscribed "SALDANHA," the broken inscrition "DE AL BU QUER QUE," and panels depicting a hunter and a fisherman, all joined by ribbon-tied floral swags.
InscriptionsWith the arms of Dom Gaspar de Saldanha
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)