Provenance

M. J. Perry.[1] J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, New York); sold 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] Edith Standen's notes on Widener collection (in NGA curatorial files). Probably Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), Providence, Rhode Island, as he was a collector of Chinese porcelains, seven of which (instead of six as indicated in the NGA systematic catalogue) are currently in the NGA's collection.

Associated Names

• Perry, Marsden J.
• Morgan, Sr., J. Pierpont
• Duveen Brothers, Inc.
• Widener, Peter Arrell Brown
• Widener, Joseph E.

Exhibition History

1910

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910-1911.

Bibliography

1904

• Morgan 1904-1911, 2:7, no. 1302, pl. 3.

1942

• Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 21.

1947

• Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 34, 37 repro.; 1956, 34, 37, fig. 18.

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: 46-47, color repro.

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