Custard Pot with Cover

Provenance

Commissioned by Hemingway family, New York [recorded on mongram]. With Plummer & Co., New York, by 1955; sold to Frederick Standish Colburn (1878–1957), Evanston, IL, by Jan. 29, 1957 [incoming receipt, RX2123, Jan. 29, 1957; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958.

Custard Pot with Cover

Chinese export porcelain

1790–95

Accession Number

7947

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain with enamels and gilding

Dimensions

8.3 × 8.9 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 3 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.)

Classification

tableware

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Frederick S. Colburn