Wine-glass cooler

Vincennes Manufactory (France)

probably 1754–55

Object PlaceFrance

Medium/TechniqueSoft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels and gold

Dimensions11.8 x 17.7 x 13.7 cm (4 5/8 x 6 15/16 x 5 3/8 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

Accession number65.1858

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ClassificationsCeramics

Collections

Europe

InscriptionsIncised N in script and 4 onbase; other marks possibly obscured by later-drilled hole.ProvenancePossibly Burdett Couts, England [see note 1]. By 1948, with Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York; March 26, 1948, Rosenberg & Stiebel sold to Forsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)

NOTES:
[1] See Jeffrey H. Munger, in "The Forsyth Wickes Collection" (1992, p. 166).