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

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M.0642
Teapot, in the form of a pomegranate

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
Accession Number: 25-32h
Medium: pen, brown ink and wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 8 5/8 x 6 5/8" (219 x 169 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: none

Teapot, in the form of a pomegranate

Provenance

  • 1876/1878: given to Murray Marks (1840-1918) , London art dealer;
  • 1879: possibly 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]).
  • 1893: probably acquired by Deprez and Gutekunst, London dealers;
  • 1893: signed by Whistler at the request of the New York dealer Max Williams (d. 1928) , and offered to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) of Detroit; 1
  • 1893: Freer bought one, Vase with slightly bulging body [M.0617], and the remainder were sold by Deprez and Gutekunst to Williams;
  • 1904: in September Max Williams sold eleven drawings to Col. Robert James Bennet (1843-1916) , Glasgow; 2
  • 1905: on 24 February John Craibe Angus (1861-1910) , Glasgow art dealer, submitted eleven drawings to Joseph Pennell (1860-1926);
  • 1905: returned by Pennell to Craibe Angus, and sold at some time to a Scottish collector.
  • 1925: given by Robert Douglas MacGregor (1850-1934) of Wiston Lodge, Lamington, Lanarkshire, to Glasgow City Art Gallery (now Glasgow Museums).

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.

Notes:

1: J. H. Jordan to Freer, 1 May 1893, Freer Gallery of Art.

2: Fitzroy Carrington to E. R. Pennell, 5 September 1906, Library of Congress. The drawings were Oviform Vase [M.0596], Oviform Vase and Cover [M.0603], Large Bowl and Cover [M.0605], Oviform Vase [M.0609], Ewer and Cover [M.0610], Tall Vase, with Bulging Body [M.0611], Beaker [M.0615], Vase with slightly bulging body and expanding neck [M.0619], Large Bowl and Cover [M.0634], Bottle of compressed globular form [M.0636], and Teapot, in the form of a pomegranate [M.0642].

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret