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Chocolate pot
Based on: Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune (French, 1741–1814)
Chinese export
About 1750–70
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain, colored enamels, gilding
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 23.8 cm (9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection—Gift of the Winfield Foundation
Accession Number51.910a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionChinese for export. Set with 51.911-913 with medallion on each side decorated with a scene of a hunter, a lady, and a man in the tree. Pear-shaped body, angular ornamented and gilded handle, triangular spout scrolled at body & gilded. Gilded bud finial on domed cover.
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)