Provenance

• 1876/1878: given to Murray Marks (1840-1918), London art dealer;
• 1879: possibly one of seven drawings sold at auction, Christie's, London, 7 February 1879 (lots 527-533), and bought by Pickford Robert Waller (1849-1930) (see Cylindrical Jar [M.0594]);
• 1894/1898: possibly one of three drawings sold by Deprez and Gutekunst, London dealers, to Frederick Keppel (1845-1912), New York dealer.
• 1898: bought from Keppel on 28 October by by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919)

• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 631).

Exhibitions

• 1878: A Catalogue of Blue and White Porcelain forming the collection of Sir Henry Thompson, Murray Marks gallery, London, 1878.

The porcelain, the final drawings, and the newly published catalogue, were exhibited in Murray Marks's shop in London, the private view being held on 30 April 1878.

Due to the terms of Freer's will, it cannot be lent to any other venue.