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Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and Its Impact on the Western World, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, October 3-December 1, 1985.
Richard Ettinghausen (1906-1979), Washington, DC [1];
Purchased from Ettinghausen by James P. (1917-2001) and Blanche Speer, II, Kansas City, MO, by 1964;
Purchased from James P. and Blanche Speer, II, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.
NOTES:
[1] In notes about his collection in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial file, James P. Speer, II, wrote: “This was purchased from a German who had made the blue & white collection for the Freer. He sold it to get money to get out of China.” According to Joanna Gohmann, Associate Curator of Provenance & Object Histories, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, in an email to MacKenzie Mallon, Head, Provenance, July 18, 2025, this refers to Ettinghausen, a German born and educated scholar of Islamic history and art history. Ettinghausen joined the Freer Gallery of Art as a curator of Islamic Art in 1944 and became chief curator in 1961. He left the Freer in 1966 to accept a professorship at New York University, where he helped to develop the Hagop Kevorkian Center of Near Eastern Studies.
Archives of Asian Art, vol. XVI (New York: Asia Society, 1962), 114, fig. 37.
Ibid., Country Life (May 30, 1963), 1248 (repro.).
The well-known Collection of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Part I, Sotheby and Company (London: March 26, 1963), no. 48 (repro.).
Sotheby & Co., sale catalog. 14 (March 1972), no. 126, no. 127 (repro.).
John Carswell et al., Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and Its Impact on the Western World (Chicago: University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, 1985), 77 (repro.).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 299 (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 224, no. 224 (repro.).
