Large Urn with Base

Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800-1870), Paris, by 1870 [1];

By descent to his son, Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), Paris, no. 897, 1870-1890;

Inherited by his wife, Amélie-Julie-Charlotte Castelnau, Lady Wallace (1819-1897), Paris, 1890-1897;

Her bequest to Sir John Murray Scott (1847-1912), Paris, 1897-1912 [2];

His bequest to Lady Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West (1862-1936), Paris, 1912 [3];

Purchased from Lady Sackville-West by Jacques Seligmann & Co. Inc., Paris and New York, stock no. 5307, by 1914-1934 [4];

Purchased from Jacques Seligmann & Co. Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

NOTES:

[1] These vases are probably no. 266 in an 1871 inventory of the family’s home at 2, rue Laffitte, Paris, as in the Grande Galerie: “Deux grands vases en granit oriental sur futs de colonnes de même matière avec tores en bronze doré prisés trois mille cinq cents francs.” Wallace Collection Archive, London, The Hertford-Wallace Family Papers, box 16, HWF/INV/1a, Part 2 of 3, 1871 inventory of Rue Laffitte. They are also listed as in the Grande Galerie and annotated “K.C.” in an undated inventory of the Wallace collection, Archives of American Art, Washington, DC, Jacques Seligmann & Co. Records, box 212, folder 38.

[2] Scott was Lady Wallace's secretary, her principal advisor and trustee of the collection. See Robert Cecil, “The Remainder of the Hertford and Wallace Collections,” The Burlington Magazine 92, no. 567 (June 1950), 168-72.

[3] Ibid. Scott left the entire collection remaining at the rue Laffite apartment to his friend, Lady Sackville-West. She sold this en bloc to the Parisian dealer Jacques Seligmann & Co., who also had an office in New York.

[4] Archives of American Art, Washington, DC, Jacques Seligmann & Co. Records, box 75, folder 19. Copies in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.