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Plate
Chinese export
Qianlong
around 1775
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain, enamel decoration
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.789
NOT ON VIEW
DescriptionSimple guilloche in gold & orange on rim. Polychrome center with a scene of figures picking cherries from a tree. Based on a print, 'La Cueillette des Cerises' engraved by Nicolas Ponce, after a design of Pierre-Antoine Baudouin.
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)