Teabowl and saucer
This 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, green, puce, blue, yellow and black on the exterior of the cup with two floral sprays and two birds in flight, on the interior with a floral sprig, and in the center of the saucer with an exotic bird amidst a cluster of flowers, the interior rim of each with a gilt-heightened iron-red border of strap work and demiflowerheads (the saucer with minor stacking wear).
Porcelain
Diameter (teabowl): 3 3/8in. (8.6cm)
Diameter (saucer): 5 1/8in. (13cm)
Gift of Frances McDougall
2014.16.11
Provenance: Acquired by Frances McDougall, date unknown – 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
