Plate
Ceramic Art of the Ancient Near East, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 12–June 28, 1931, no. 54.
Valentine Everit Macy (1871–1930), New York, by 1930 [1];
Purchased at Macy’s posthumous sale, The V. Everit Macy Collection including Rare and Important Persian and Mesopotamian Pottery, Persian and Indian Miniatures, Persian Brocades, and Velvet Carpets, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, January 8, 1938, lot 453 as Rhages Small Copper Lustre Plate with Figural Decoration by Brummer Gallery, New York, 1938–1945 [2];
Purchased from Brummer Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1945 [3].
[1] V. Everit Macy died in 1930, the exhibition credits the loan to the Estate of V. Everit Macy. See The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Loan Exhibition of Ceramic Art of the Near East published in 1931.
[2] See The V. Everit Macy Collection auction catalog, January 6–8, 1938, produced by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc.
[3] Brummer Gallery Object Inventory Card no. N4235.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of Ceramic Art of the Near East, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), 14.
Catalog of the V. Everit Macy Collection including rare and important Persian and Mesopotamian pottery, Persian and Indian miniatures, Persian brocades, and velvet carpets (New York: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1938), 108.
