Custard Pot with Cover

Arts of the Americas

1790–95

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Chinese export porcelain
Title: Custard Pot with Cover
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. 1790–1795
Medium: Hard-paste porcelain with enamels and gilding
Inscriptions: Monogram: "HLH" [in shield on chest of eagle]
Dimensions: 8.3 × 8.9 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 3 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Frederick S. Colburn
Reference Number: 1958.273a-b
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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.

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