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Pomade pot with cover.
Made at: Chantilly Manufactory (France)
French
About 1730-40
Medium/Technique
Porcelain
Dimensions
Legacy dimension: 2 1/4" H. diameter 2 1/8" diameter of cover 2 1/4"
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.1931a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionPomade pot with cover. Soft paste. Cylindrical pot decorated in Kakiemon chrysanthemum and branch motif with red border at base. Japanese landscape scene and butterfly on cover surrounded by red patterned border; round green knop finial. Mark: hunting horn in red.
Marks
Mark: hunting horn in red.
ProvenanceAugust 7, 1940, possibly sold by Elizabeth W. Duval, New York, to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI [see note]; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)
NOTE: This may be the "Chantilly jar with cover" that she sold to Forsyth Wickes on this date, which had been acquired by her mother from "Vernon, Newport, 1929."
NOTE: This may be the "Chantilly jar with cover" that she sold to Forsyth Wickes on this date, which had been acquired by her mother from "Vernon, Newport, 1929."