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“Andrew Craig Walker” Urn
Photo provided by vendor, 7/8/2024
Photo provided by vendor, 7/8/2024

“Andrew Craig Walker” Urn

Manufacturer Tucker Factory (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1826 - 1838)
Designerprobably Andrew Craig Walker (American, died before 1893)
CultureAmerican
Date1828
MediumPorcelain, with enamels and gilding
DimensionsOverall: 10 3/4 × 4 1/2 × 3 3/4 inches (27.31 × 11.43 × 9.53 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired with funds provided by Valerie and Scott Chaloud
Object number2024.43.1,2
InscribedInscribed and dated (on the back): ACW. / 1828
MarkingsSeveral stickers/labels on bottom: in black pen: "8850", "PMA Sweet [? illegible]", "1968 / 36A" in black type: "Anonymous / 2 - 52", "FAPG 20697D
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 211
DescriptionTwo-handled urn on base with painted bouquet of flowers on verso; on recto, inscription applied with gilding: "A.C.W./1828."Exhibition History

"Tucker China, 1825-1838: An Exhibition of Examples of the Porcelain Made in Philadelphia by William Ellis Tucker, Tucker and Hulme, Tucker and Hemphill, Joseph Hemphill, and Thomas Tucker," Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 4-September 9, 1957, no. 302;

"Augmenting the Canon: Recent Acquisitions of American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts," Hirshl & Adler Galleries, New York, December 13, 2018-March 2, 2019, no. 36B.


Provenance

Francis E. Judson (1905-1993) and Henrietta Chapman Judson (1907-2002), Wayne, Pennsylvania, by at least 1957 until 2002; [1]

By family descent to 2015;

Sold "Americana and Fine Art," Pook & Pook, Inc. Auctioneers and Appraisers, Downington, Pennsylvania, Saturday January 17, 2015, lot 205;

Purchased by Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York;

Sold by them to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024


NOTES

[1.] The vase was in the Judson collection when it was exhibited anonymously at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1957.


Published References

Tucker China, 1825-1838: An Exhibition of Examples of the Porcelain Made in Philadelphia by William Ellis Tucker, Tucker and Hulme, Tucker and Hemphill, Joseph Hemphill, and Thomas Tucker,exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1957): no. 302, p. 26.

Elizabeth Feld and Stuart P. Feld. Augmenting the Canon: Recent Acquisitions of American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts, exh. cat. (New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 2018): pp. 88-89 (ill.)

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