Egg cup
ca. 1735-45
This work was a gift from the collection of Frances McDougall, an original member of the Seattle Ceramic Society beginning in the mid-1940s.
Of goblet shape, each circular cup and the edge of its flaring circular foot molded with fluting, the cup rim painted in underglaze-blue with a border of foliate-scrolls, fans and strap work repeated around the foot, and the top of the stem with a blue cell diaper band.
Porcelain
3 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (7.9 x 5.4 cm)
Gift of Frances McDougall
2014.16.10b
Provenance: [Parke-Bernet Galleries, NY]; Purchased from gallery by [William H. Lautz, NY] at the auction of Pauline Riggs Noyes estate, lot # 39; Purchased from gallery by Frances McDougall, June 1947 – 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
