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Coffee pot

Chinese
about 1790
Object Place: China for American Market

Medium/Technique Porcelain
Dimensions 24.13 x 20.32 x 12.7 cm (9 1/2 x 8 x 5 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Nancy Hemenway Whitten Barton and Robert Durrie Barton in memory of Marion and Robinson Whitten
Accession Number1992.382.2a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Americas
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

DescriptionDecorated with an overglaze blue crest of two birds and a gilded decoration at border.
ProvenanceProbably originally owned by Miss Chapeny, engaged to Oliver Fiske (mid-18th century); to Oliver's sister Sally Fiske m. Jonathan Day Dix of Hingham; to their grandson George Day Dix (b. 1835) of Newton; to Martha and Mary Dix of Newton; to Mrs. Frances Adelaide Barnes Dix; to her daughter Marion Frances Dix Whitten; 1979, to her daughter Nancy Hemenway Whitten Barton; 1992, gift of Nancy H.W. Barton to the MFA. (Accession date: June 24, 1992)