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Provenance

Frédéric Engel-Gros, Château de Ripaille, Haute Savoie, France, by 1888 (sale, Paris, 30 May - 1 June 1921, no. 122);[1] (Durlacher, London); purchased 1922 by Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, after purchase by funds of the Estate, 1942.[2]

[1] Edmond Bonnaffé, "Les faïences de Saint-Porchaire," Gazette des beaux-arts 2d ser., 37 (1888), 327, "une coupe d'une forme originale à M. Engel-Gros de Baie," presumably refers to this piece. Catalogue des tableaux anciens, tableaux modernes, objets d'art et de haute curiosité, importantes tapisseries composant la collection Engel-Gros, Paris, 30 May-1 June 1921, no. 122 repro.

[2] NGA provenance records state that this piece was in the "Lowengard collection. Sold Paris, 10 June 1910;" and from the "Achille Leclerq collection." However, what sounds like the same piece was already mentioned by Bonnaffé in 1888 as in the collection of Engel-Gros. Neither the sale in Paris on 30 May 1904, following the death of Achille Leclerq, "antiquaire," nor the Catalogue des tapisseries de Flandres... après décès de M. Lowengard, sold on 10 June 1910, included any Saint-Porchaire.

Exhibition History

1994
Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, brochure, no. 44, as Cup with the Arms of France, Arabesques, and Other Ornament.

Bibliography

1888
Bonnaffé, Edmond. "Les faïences de Saint-Porchaire." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 2d ser. 37 (1888): 327 ("une coupe d'une forme originale à M. Engel-Gros de Bâle," presumably this piece).
1891
Bonnaffé, Edmond. "Faïences de Saint-Porchaire dites de Henri II." In La collection Spitzer: Antiquité, moyen âge, renaissance. 6 vols. Paris, 1890-1892: 130.
1921
Dacier, Emile. "Les collections du Château de Ripaille, II; les sculptures et les objets d'art." Revue de l'art ancien et moderne 39 (1921): 314, repro. 319.
1921
"Les grande ventes." L'art et les artistes. n.s., no. 17 (May 1921): 335.
1925
Ganz, Paul. L'oeuvre d'un amateur d'art: La collection de Monsieur F. Engel Gros. Catalogue raisonné. Geneva and Paris, 1925: 421-423, 452; no. 101, pl. 148.
1935
Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 69, as c. 1560.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 14, as Henri II Ware, Coupe with the arms of France.
1975
Jestaz 1975, 396, n. 36.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 204, no. 32, as c. 1555.
1987
Schnitzer, Barbara K. "The Sixteenth-Century French Ceramic Ware Called Saint-Porchaire." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1987: 203, no. 49, pl. 29.
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: 254-256, color repro. 254.
1996
Barbour, Daphne and Shelley Sturman. "Introduction." Studies in the History of Art 52 (1996): 12, repro. no. 1.
1996
Sturman, Shelley and Daphne Barbour. "'Saint-Porchaire' Ceramic Bodies." Studies in the History of Art 52 (1996): 84, 86, 87, repro. no. 9.

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