James McNeill Whistler
Design for a Piece of Blue and White China (Vase)
1870-1880
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James McNeill Whistler
Design for a Piece of Blue and White China (Vase)
1870-1880
Physical Qualities
Brush and brown ink and brown wash on paper, Sheet: 225 × 178 mm. (8 7/8 × 7 in.)
Image: 112 × 90 mm. (4 7/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.8311
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Margaret F. MacDonald. "James McNeill Whistler, Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolors: A Catalogue Raisonné." New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. repr. p. 237, no. 651.
Inscribed: Recto: at top, in graphite: "Dessin original de Whistler non employe dans le catalogue de Sir Henry Thompson"; at lower left, in graphite: "not to be / used"; at lower right, in graphite: "1000"; Verso: at upper left, in blue pencil: "1418"; at upper left, in graphite: "48 [circled]"; at center, in graphite: "original by Whistler / not used in Sir Henry Thompson / Catalogue Blue & White [?] porcelain."
Markings: CM: verso: MICA
