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Alternate view of black ground porcelain vase with yellow, white, and pink flowers
Black ground porcelain vase with yellow, white, and pink flowers
Base of black ground porcelain vase with yellow, white, and pink flowers
Alternate view of black ground porcelain vase with yellow, white, and pink flowers

Vase

Dateprobably 19th century
MediumHard-paste porcelain with polychrome overglaze
DimensionsH.: 27 in. (68.6 cm), diam.: 11 in. (27.9 cm)
Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest
Accession number1915.8.24
Commentary

Small black-ground wares were produced in China during the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1662–1722). However, large vases, such as this one, were produced in the nineteenth century in China or in Europe to satisfy the taste of British and American collectors. Henry Clay Frick purchased twenty-three of them, often at a high price, from the art dealers Henry and Joseph Duveen. They all came from the collection of the great American financier J. Pierpont Morgan.

Source: Vignon, Charlotte. The Frick Collection Decorative Arts Handbook. New York: The Frick Collection/Scala, 2015.

Collection History

James A. Garland, 1895. Duveen. J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York, 1902. Duveen. Frick, 1915.

Source: Porcelains in The Frick Collection: Oriental and French. Volume VII. New York: The Frick Collection, 1974.

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