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Covered Sugar Basin and Stand
Made at: Chantilly Manufactory (France)
French
about 1730–40
Medium/Technique
Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels
Dimensions
Overall (basin): 10.4 x 16.2 x 14.5 cm (4 1/8 x 6 3/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Overall (stand): 3.8 x 24.5 x 19.5 cm (1 1/2 x 9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Overall (stand): 3.8 x 24.5 x 19.5 cm (1 1/2 x 9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.1941a-c
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionQuatrefoil, oval bouillon bowl and cover. Decorated in the Kakiemon style, flowers and insects rim of stand painted brown finial of cover, has flower cluster. Small rim section missing on stand.
Marks
hunting horn in iron-red enamel
ProvenanceForsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)