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French 16th Century (ceramist) Salt, c. 1540/1560 lead-glazed fine earthenware overall (height): 12 cm (4 3/4 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.353 |
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Provenance
Charles Callixte, Comte de Tusseau [d. 1864], Airvault, Deux-Sèvres, by 1861.[1] Frédéric Spitzer [1815-1890], Paris, by 1881; (Spitzer sale, 17 April-16 June 1893, 15 May, no. 664, sold for 10,200 francs).[2] (Lowengard, Paris); purchased 15 February 1906 by Peter A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Delange, Henri, and Carle Delange, Recueil de toutes les pièces connues jusqu'à ce jour de la faïence française dite de Henri II et Diane de Poitiers, Paris, 1861: 31.
[2] Edouard Garnier, "Collections de M. Spitzer: Céramique française," Gazette des beaux-arts, 2d ser., 24 (1881): 402 (one of five salts mentioned as in Spitzer's collection). Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité...composant l'importante et précieuse collection Spitzer (Paris, 1893): no. 664, pl. 17. According to Edmond Bonnaffé, "Les faïences de Saint-Porchaire," GBA, 3rd ser., 13 (1895): 285, the buyer at the Spitzer sale was "Goldsmith."
Associated Names
- Callixte, comte de Tusseau, Charles
- Goldsmith
- Lowengard
- Spitzer, Frédéric, Baron
- Widener, Joseph E.
- Widener, Peter Arrell Brown
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