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Tea caddy
Chinese Export
about 1745-65
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.804a-b
NOT ON VIEW
DescriptionChinese for export. Covered vase. Curved body tapering to splayed foot around which is applied freestanding mulberry-colored scrollwork. Yellow sides, mulberry outlined quatrefoil panels on front & back enclose polychrome flowers, butterfly in one. Small-flanged cover with pointed knob has similar panel decoration on dome. See 51.856a-b
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)