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Teapot
Chinese Export
1750–70
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Porcelain, enamel decoration
Dimensions
12.7 cm (5 in.)
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.837a-b
NOT ON VIEW
DescriptionTeapot with black enameled "pencilled" satirical decoration in ink-colored enamel of "Provender for the Monastery," depicting a monk smuggling a woman into the monastery hidden in a large sheaf of corn on his back.
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)