Sweetmeat basket
ca. 1760
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 the center in shades of rose, yellow, purple and brown with a small bird in flight near a bird perched in a tree and a larger bird on a green and yellow grassy plateau, the slightly everted sides formed as wickerwork applied at the intersections with rose-centered yellow florets and the brown-edged rim applied at the sides with yellow and rose twisted-loop handles terminating in similarly colored floral clusters and green leaves (one leaf tip chipped; and the edge of the center with a firing crack).
Porcelain
2 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (5.7 x 10.8 cm)
Gift of Frances McDougall
2014.16.4
Provenance: [Lillian Little, Chicago]; Purchased from gallery by Frances McDougall, February 1948 – 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