Silver Stand

1900/1911

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Bennett, Northampton, England. (Gorer, London); (Dreicer & Co., New York, agents for Gorer, London);[1] sold 1912 to Peter A. B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] The provenance given here prior to the Widener ownership is the provenance for the lantern (NGA 1942.9.590) for which the stand was made. The lantern was provided with the silver stand between 1900 and 1911. The dates of ownership by Bennett and Gorer are not certain.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1911

  • Gorer/Blacker 1911, 1:pl. 122.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 23.

1998

  • Bower, Virginia, Josephine Hadley Knapp, Stephen Little, and Robert Wilson Torchia. Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 216, note 1.

Inscriptions

on the foot: "PAIR KIANGHI [sic] IMPERIAL WARE EGGSHELL LAMPSHADES--FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF YANG LI SAN [followed by three Chinese characters] / MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR BEHEADED BY ORDER OF PRINCE TUAN DURING THE BOXER TROUBLES OF 1900"

Wikidata ID

Q62758550

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