Teabowl and saucer

Dateca. 1730

Label TextThis work was a gift from the collection of Frances McDougall, an original member of the Seattle Ceramic Society beginning in the mid-1940s. Painted in iron-red, blue, green, black and gilding on the exterior of the teabowl and in the center with pine, prunus and bamboo growing from bound wheat sheaves, the interior of the teabowl with a small floral sprig, and the rims edged in brown, crossed swords marks in blue enamel, impressed former's mark: for Johann Martin Kittel, Junior on the teabowl and an incised/on the saucer, and each with the incised and faintly blackened Japanese Palace Inventory number N=243-W.

Object number2014.16.2

Provenance[William H. Lautz]; Purchased from gallery by Frances McDougall, November 1954 – her death; by inheritance to Mrs. McDougall’s grand-daughter Katherine Kasony-Quinn; gift from Ms. Kasony-Quinn to Seattle Art Museum (in her grandmother’s name), June 2014.

Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann

Credit LineGift of Frances McDougall

Dimensions2 7/8 x 4 15/16 in. (7.3 x 12.5 cm)

MediumPorcelain