Flower vase scent bottle and stopper
ca. 1755-58
This work was a gift from the collection of Frances McDougall, an original member of the Seattle Ceramic Society beginning in the mid-1940s.
Modeled as an urn with ring handles at the sides, colorfully painted on the front and reverse with a lush floral bouquet and small sprigs, mounded with a triangular arrangement of colorful blossoms and green leaves, and surmounted by a butterfly-form stopper (tiny chips on the flowers and leaves); the neck and stopper rims mounted in silver-gilt.
Porcelain
3 1/2 x 2 x 1 1/4 in. (8.9 x 5.1 x 3.2 cm)
Gift of Frances McDougall
2014.16.7
Provenance: [Stoner and Evans, Inc., NY]; Purchased from gallery by Frances McDougall, July 1945 – 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
