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Covered custard cup

Made at: Chantilly Manufactory (France)
French
about 1760
Object Place: Europe, France

Medium/Technique Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions 8.4 x 8 x 6.5 cm (3 5/16 x 3 1/8 x 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.1986a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

DescriptionSmall cream pot decorated with flowers. Three sprays on cover, fruit and leaf finial, handle with blue decoration. Marked with blue hunting horn and decorator letter " ". Incised: Damage: 2 chips on leaf finial. Chavagnac-Grollier, p.81 (mark).
ProvenanceForsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA.