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    • Taperstick, ca. 1700–1710
    Chinese (probably for the Dutch market)
    Hard paste

    H. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
    Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1970 (1970.266.3)

    The stepped, square-sectioned form of the taperstick is derived from late seventeenth-century metalwork, but this example—with its multiple stages and carefully zoned decoration—is probably based on a painted wood model.

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  • Le Corbeiller, Clare, and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen. "Chinese Export Porcelain." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 60, no. 3 (Winter, 2003).
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  • Le Corbeiller, Clare. "Porcelain Odysseys." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 29, no. 9 (May, 1971).
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  • Taperstick, ca. 1700–1710
    Chinese (probably for the Dutch market)
    Hard paste

    H. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
    Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1970 (1970.266.3)