Fluted vase

ca. 1752

Soft paste porcelain

7 1/2 in. (19.05 cm)

Kenneth and Priscilla Klepser Porcelain Collection

94.103.2

Provenance: [Mr John Perkins of Albert Amor Ltd, London, England, 1952]; sold to Mr and Mrs Kenneth and Priscilla Klepser, 1952-1994 (cf. letter dated November 20, 1952 from Mr T. Leonard Crow, Tewkesbury, England, to Mr Klepser); gift from Mr and Mrs Kenneth and Priscilla Klepser to Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 1994

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Ceramic Art Society at the Seattle Art Museum, "The Klepser Collection of Early Worcester Porcelain", April 6, 1955 - May 3, 1955 (4/6/1955 - 5/3/1955)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Worcester Porcelain: The Klepser Collection, August 8, 1985-September 22, 1985. 1984-85 circuit included: Minneapolis, MN, Minneapolis Institute of Art; San Francisco, CA, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art; Sarasota, FL, Ringling Museum of Art.

Published ReferencesMarshall, Henry Rissik. Coloured Worcester porcelain of the first period, 1751-1783. Newport, Monmouthshire: Ceramic Book Co., 1954.

Spero, Simon. Worcester Porcelain: The Klepser Collection. London: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in association with Lund Humphries Publishers, 1984, p. 21, no. 2, illus. (b&w, p. 21; color pl. 2);

Seattle Art Museum. Catalogue of the Klepser Collection of Worcester Porcelain of the Dr. Wall Period and Its Antecedents (exhibition catalogue), 1955, no. 24, illus. (p. 11, pl. II)

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