Jug with Lid

Arts of the Americas

c. 1785

Artist unknown (Chinese, made for the American market)
China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Chinese export porcelain
Title: Jug with Lid
Place: China (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1785
Medium: Porcelain with enamels and gilding
Inscriptions: Monogram on bottom: "PM"; inscibed recto, middle, on banner "Virtue, Liberty, Independence" [arms of the State of Philadelphia]
Dimensions: 23.2 × 15.2 cm (9 1/8 × 6 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Frederick S. Colburn
Reference Number: 1958.223a-b
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Vivian Scheidemantel, China-Trade Porcelain from the Frederick S. Colburn Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, no. 1 (Feb. 1, 1957), 4 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, China-Trade Porcelain from the Frederick S. Colburn Collection, from Feb. 1, 1957, no cat.

The Morse family, PA [Scheidemantel, Feb. 1, 1957]. Frederick Standish Colburn (1878–1957), Evanston, IL, by 1957 [incoming receipt, RX2471, Jan. 31. 1958; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958.

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