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

 

Bottle

Description


                    Bottle, Freer Gallery of Art
Bottle, Freer Gallery of Art

The Thompson catalogue described this as 'Pair of Bottles, of depressed globular form, with short neck. Vases, implements, and leaves on a translucent ground of pale blue; ornamented with stemless hawthorn. On the neck a projecting rim with ornamental band; above stemless hawthorn. Height, 7 ½ inches.' 1

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] , p. 3 (cat. no. 8) repr. pl. 3.

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret