Hot Milk Pot Maker: Unknown

1785–90

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900

Medium

Porcelain with overglaze enamel

Dimensions

9 × 5 × 6 1/4 in. (22.86 × 12.7 × 15.88 cm)

Credit Line

de Lancey Kountze Collection, Gift of de Lancey Kountze, B.A. 1899

Accession Number

1939.79

Geography

Made in China

Culture

Chinese

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Maj. Gen. Henry Knox (1750–1806), probably Thomaston, Maine, by 1806. William de Lancey Kountze (1878–1946), New York, by 1939; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1939
Bibliography

  • Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 108–9, no. 52, ill.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

hot milk jugs

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