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Teapot with Cover
Chinese for export
about 1755
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain with colored enamels and gilding
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.1162a-b
DescriptionGlobular with straight neck & baseband. Straight spout. Scroll handle. Arms of Seymour, Dukes of Somerset, on each side, flowers between, chain on shoulder. Scroll below with motto "Foy pour devoir". Domed & flanged cover with chain & flowers, pointed gilded knob finial. Set with 51.1163-1176.
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)