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Egg cup

Dateca. 1735-45

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. 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.

Object number2014.16.10b

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 CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann

Credit LineGift of Frances McDougall

Dimensions3 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (7.9 x 5.4 cm)

MediumPorcelain