National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Oval Dish with the Whore of Babylon
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Inscription

lower left: APOCA XVII.; lower center: M.C.

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Provenance

Hollingworth Magniac, Esq., Colworth, by 1862[1] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 2 and 4 July 1892, no. 248); Charles Borradaille, Paris, by 1897.[2] (Duveen Brothers, New York and London); purchased 8 November 1901 by Peter A. B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.[3]

[1] Widener Collection records in NGA Curatorial Records indicate that Magniac bought the dish from two unidentified ladies in Bedfordshire about 1835. The dish was lent by Magniac to the South Kensington exhibition in 1862.

[2] Borradaille is named as the lender in the catalogue of the 1897 Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition.

[3] Widener Collection records in NGA Curatorial Records.

Exhibition History

1862
Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Medieval, Renaissance, and More Recent Periods on Loan at the South Kensington Museum, June, 1862, South Kensington Museum, London, 1862, no. 1851. Rev. ed. 1863.
1874
Special Loan Exhibition of Enamels on Metal, South Kensington Museum, London, 1874, no. 732.
1897
A Collection of European Enamels from the Earliest Date to the End of the XVII Century, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1897, no. 143, pls. 21-22.
1937
The Art of the Renaissance Craftsman, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, no. 13, frontispiece.

Bibliography

1862
South Kensington 1862, no. 1851.
1874
Special Loan Exhibition of Enamels on Metal. Exh. cat. South Kensington Museum, London, 1874: no. 732.
1892
Robinson, Sir Charles. Catalogue of the Renowned Collection, chiefly formed by the late Hollingworth Magniac, Esq.... Christie, Manson & Woods. London, July 2-8, 11-15, 1892: no. 248.
1897
A Collection of European Enamels from the Earliest Date to the End of the XVII Century. Exh. cat. Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1897: no. 143, pls. 21-22.
1935
Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 36-37, as Large oval Dish representing a Scene from the Apocalypse.
1937
The Art of the Renaissance Craftsman. Exh. cat. The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1937: no. 13, frontispiece.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 10, as Large oval dish with a scene from the Apocalypse.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 203-204, no. 31., repro.
1993
Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timonthy H. Wilson. Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 101-103, color repro. 102.

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