Stand for a butter tub or cheese tub

Vincennes Manufactory (France)

1755–56

Object PlaceFrance

Medium/TechniqueSoft-paste porcelain, colored enamels, gilding.

DimensionsOther (Overall): 3.3 × 20.6 cm (1 5/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of Dudley Leavitt Pickman

Accession number34.1342

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ClassificationsCeramics

Collections

Europe

InscriptionsPaper label of Laurent Curiosities, Paris.ProvenanceLaurent Curiosities (dealer), 2 rue Meyerbeer, Paris. By 1911, Dudley Leavitt Pickman (b. 1850 - d. 1938), Boston [see note]; 1934, gift of Dudley Leavitt Pickman to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 6, 1934)

NOTE: First lent to the MFA on May 19, 1911.