Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

Home > Catalogue > Browse > Bottle of compressed globular form <<   >>

M.0635
Bottle of compressed globular form

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Accession Number: 69.173
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream Japan paper laid down on card
Size: 7 1/16 x 4 15/16" (179 x 126 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
print

Bottle of compressed globular form

Description

Bottle of compressed globular form , Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute,
Bottle of compressed globular form , Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute,

A study of a bottle.

The Thompson catalogue described the subject, one of a pair of bottles, as follows:

'No. 204. Two Bottles, of compressed globular form. Long thick necks of very white porcelain with an ornamental band. The rest of the bottle with conventional design of large aster flowers and leaves united by elegantly curved branches. Mark, double ring, and Ta Ming Seuen-tih nien chi. a. d. 1426-1436. Height, 14 ¼ inches.' 1

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more], p. 39 (cat. no. 204) repr. pl. 19.

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret