Pilgrim Flask-form scent bottle
Dateca. 1770-75
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.
Painted in shades of iron-red, rose, green, brown and yellow on one side with Cupid watching a putto playing a guitar, and on the reverse with a putto listening to another playing a flute beneath a tree, the lower body and flaring oval foot with rose-heightened gadrooning, the neck with rose-heightened fluting, and the sides molded with female masks gazing upwards, (two small foot rim chips) the neck mounted with a gilt copper rim and domed screw-on cover (slight wear to the gilding).
Object number2014.16.5
Provenance[William H. Lautz]; Purchased from gallery by Frances McDougall, November 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 CreditPhoto: Elizbeth Mann
Credit LineGift of Frances McDougall
Dimensions3 3/4 x 2 1/4 x 3/4 in. (9.5 x 5.7 x 1.9 cm)
MediumPorcelain
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