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

 

M.0619
Vase with slightly bulging body and expanding neck

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
Accession Number: 25-32f
Medium: pen, dark brown ink and wash over pencil
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 8 1/2 x 6 7/16" (216 x 163 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: none

Vase with slightly bulging body and expanding neck

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 619) as 'Vase with slightly bulging body and expanding neck'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Thompson, Sir Henry, A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain Forming the Collection of Sir Henry Thompson. Illustrated ... from Drawings by James Whistler ... and Sir Henry Thompson, London, 1878, pp. 15-16 (cat. no. 74) repr. pl. XII.

Catalogues 1855-1905

EXHIBITION:

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

SALE:

  • Possibly Christie's, London, 7 February 1879 (lots 527-533).

Last updated: 17th March 2021 by Margaret