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Teabowl, coffee cup and saucer

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Teabowl, coffee cup and saucer

1796

This 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.

Porcelain
Diameter (Teabowl): 3 5/16in. (8.4cm)
Diameter (Saucer): 5 1/16in. (12.9cm)
Height (Coffee cup): 2 1/2in. (6.4cm)
Gift of Frances McDougall
2014.16.3
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: Elizabeth Mann
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Not currently on view

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