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DEACESSIONED April 25, 2013
Covered vegetable dish
Chinese Export
about 1785-1800
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Length: 11 in.
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.1080a-b
DescriptionChinese for export. [One of a] Pair of covered vegetable dishes. Rectangular, almost straight sides fluted at corners taper to flat bottom with small baseband. Ornament inside. Shaped domed cover, inset, has pierced gilt cone finial, leaves in pink & gilt.
Northeast Auctions description:
Each painted in blue enamel and gold on the interior and cover with the initials "JVP" within a medallion and surrounded by a leafy vine band, the rim gilt with a trellis diaper border edged with husk, star and upright leaftip bands, each covered with pinecone knop.
Northeast Auctions description:
Each painted in blue enamel and gold on the interior and cover with the initials "JVP" within a medallion and surrounded by a leafy vine band, the rim gilt with a trellis diaper border edged with husk, star and upright leaftip bands, each covered with pinecone knop.
Inscriptionswith the initials "JVP"
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, Deaccession Date: April 24, 2013)