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Chocolate Cup and Saucer

Chocolate Cup and Saucer

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Artist
Unknown (Chinese)
Title
Chocolate Cup and Saucer
Date
ca. 1740
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
cup: 3 H x 3 3/8 diam. in.; saucer: 1 1/4 H x 5 3/8 diam. in. overall
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cleaver
Accession No.
1975.139a-b
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
China

Related

by 1973, Ethel Liebman [mother] and Arthur Liebman [son] (Milwaukee, WI); 1973, Arthur Liebman (Milwaukee, WI) sold to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cleaver (Milwaukee, WI); September 1973, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cleaver deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 1975, gifted to Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Brawer, Catherine Coleman. "Chinese Export Porcelain." Madison, Wis.: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1992. pp. 33, 11, no. 9; pl. 2
  • Brawer, Catherine Coleman. "Trade Winds: The Lure of the China Trade, 16th-19th Centuries". Katonah Gallery, 1985 no. 48

  • European and Chinese Export Porcelain on Loan and from the Permanent Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 7/16/1983–9/4/1983
  • Chinese Export Porcelain from the Ethel and Arthur Liebman Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/21/1979–1/6/1980

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