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Tea Caddy
Chinese
about 1790
Object Place: China for American Market
Medium/Technique
Porcelain
Dimensions
13.33 x 8.25 x 4.44 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Nancy Hemenway Whitten Barton and Robert Durrie Barton in memory of Marion and Robinson Whitten
Accession Number1992.382.4a-b
NOT ON VIEW
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)