Dish
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With Société Seligmann, Paris, by March 17, 1914 [1];
Purchased at their sale, Objets d’art et de haute curiosité…Provenance de la liquidation de l’ancienne Société Seligmann, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 17, 1914, lot 13, by Durlacher Brothers, 1914 [2];
Possibly Lt. Col. Sir George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926), Dorchester House, London, by 1921 [3];
With A. S. Drey, New York, by May 28, 1934;
Purchased from A. S. Drey by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] Société Seligmann was a trading company founded in 1880 by Jacques (1858-1923) and Arnold (1870-1932) Seligmann. According to the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, this liquidation sale followed a 1912 lawsuit between the brothers which divided the company into two: Jacques Seligmann & Cie and Arnold Seligmann & Cie.
[2] According to an annotated auction catalogue in the Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet, https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idurl/1/21353 , accessed December 20, 2021, and a handwritten annotation on a photograph in the Getty Research Institute, Duveen Brothers Stock Documentation, box 478, folder 3.
[3] According to a note from A. S. Drey in the NAMA curatorial file, this dish was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Winter Exhibition, London, 1921-1922. The exhibition catalogue does not include a dish with a description matching the Nelson-Atkins dish, but there are several objects listed in the catalogue without any description. It is possible the Nelson-Atkins dish is one of these undescribed objects. The exhibition catalogue describes the exhibited objects as from the Robert Holford collection, lent by his son, Sir George Holford. However, since Robert Holford died in 1892 and this dish was included in the 1914 Société Seligmann sale, it would have had to have been acquired by Sir George Holford after the 1914 sale and not have been part of the Robert Holford collection. A similar dish was included in Sir George Holford’s posthumous sale, Old Italian Furniture and Majolica, Old French Furniture, Objects of Art and Porcelain, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, July 13, 1927, lot 40, bought by Mr. H. Symons, but the lot is not illustrated, the 15-inch diameter dimension is slightly larger than the Nelson-Atkins dish, and the description of the lot is insufficient to definitively match the offered dish to the Nelson-Atkins example.
