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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Sweetmeat basket
Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Sweetmeat basket

Dateca. 1760
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 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).
Object number2014.16.4
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 CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 18th Century English Porcelain, cat. number 150, April 19 - May 27, 1956
Credit LineGift of Frances McDougall
Dimensions2 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (5.7 x 10.8 cm)
MediumPorcelain
Photo: Elizbeth Mann
ca. 1770-75
Object number: 2014.16.5
Photo: Elizbeth Mann
Bow Porcelain Manufactory, London, England
ca. 1765
Object number: 2014.16.8b
Plate
1516 - 1576
Object number: 57.50
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Object number: 2014.16.11
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
1796
Object number: 2014.16.3
Plate
ca. 1555-1565
Object number: 56.268
Plate
16th century
Object number: 56.165
Photo: Elizbeth Mann
ca. 1755
Object number: 2014.16.12
Landscape of Tangiers
ca. 1832
Object number: 56.277
Double-handled jar
ca. 1600 - 10
Object number: 48.33
Photo: Scott Leen
ca. 1550-70
Object number: 56.267
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Persian
12th to early 13th century
Object number: 38.139