Teapot
Part (lid): 1 1/2 × 2 1/4 inches (3.81 × 5.72 cm)
- 119
Luxury and Passion: Inventing French Porcelain, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 13 2022–August 12 2024, no cat.
Mrs. M. Burroughs, by June 26, 1971;
Purchased at her sale,Bedeutende porzellane des 18 Jahrhunderts aus der Kgl. Meissen Manufaktur..., Sotheby’s Zürich, June 26, 1971, lot 15, by the dealer Winifred Williams Antiques, Eastborne, Sussex, England, 1971 [1];
Probably purchased from Winifred Williams Antiques by Sarah Belk Gambrell (1918–2020), New York and Charlotte, NC, no. 71.SBG.58.A-2, 1971-2020 [2];
Purchased at her posthumous sale, The Sarah Belk Gambrell Collection of European Porcelain, Doyle New York, June 24, 2021, lot 4, by E&H Manners Ceramics and Works of Art, London, 2021-2022;
Purchased from Manners by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2022.
Notes:
[1] According to annotations in the auctioneer’s catalogue, Sotheby’s Zürich records, copy in NAMA curatorial files.
[2] Gambrell’s collection inventory number appears in red on the bottom of the object. It is unclear whether Gambrell purchased the teapot directly from Winifred Williams Antiques, or if Winifred Williams purchased the teapot from the Sotheby’s sale on behalf of Gambrell.
