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Sugar bowl with cover
Chinese for export
about 1748
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain with colored enamels and gilding
Dimensions
8.89 cm (3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.1164a-b
DescriptionChinese for export. Almost straight rim, cover fitting inside, double curve to baseband. Arms of Seymour on each side, flowers between. Chain inside. Domed cover, chain & flowers, reel handle. Set with 1857-1912.41. Cover 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)