Teabowl, coffee cup and saucer

Date1796

Painted by Fidelle Duvivier, French, born 1740, active 1799

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. Painting attributed to Fidelle Duvivier in shades of green, brown and grey with two sheep in a misty landscape, the reverse of the cup and top of the saucer with the crest of Thomson of Treveryan and St. Caroc, Cornwall, depicting an iron-red hand holding a yellow sheaf of wheat above the gilt date 1796, and the rims edged in gilding.

Object number2014.16.3

Provenance[Stoner and Evans, Inc., NY]; Purchased from gallery by Frances McDougall, October 1946 – 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

DimensionsDiameter (Teabowl): 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm) Diameter (Saucer): 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm) Height (Coffee cup): 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)

MediumPorcelain