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Cup and saucer
Chinese export
about 1775
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Porcelain, colored enamels, gilding
Dimensions
3.9 cm (1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.857a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionChinese for export, probably to English market. Cup and saucer have molded and scalloped edges with pink and orange floral border. In center of saucer and on curving sides of cup: group of four figures in grisaille with flesh-color against landscape background. Chipped.
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)