Sugar box

ca. 1720

Meissen manufactory, German

Bartolomaus Seuter workshop, Augsburg, Germany

Böttger porcelain, with gold chinoiserie

2 3/8 x 4 x 13 3/4 in. (6 x 10.2 x 34.9cm)

Gift of Martha and Henry Isaacson

55.98

Provenance: [The Art Exchange, 1955]; sold to Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson, 1955; gift from Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson to Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 1955

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryContinental Table Porcelain of the 18th Century, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, 1965.

Published ReferencesEmerson, Julie. "Coffee, Tea and Chocolate Wares in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, no. 4, p. 16

Continental Table Porcelain of the 18th Century. M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, cat. (1965), no. 32.

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