User:Czar/drafts/Mary J. Morgan auction

Vase[edit]

Glass vases modeled after the Morgan auction at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Walters Art Museum

Morgan vase, Peachblow vase, Peach Blow vase, Peachbloom vase, Peach-bloom

"the celebrated Mary J. Morgan sale of years ago which first taught the American public what a peachbloom vase was" https://books.google.com/books?id=7GUMQfcjnpYC&pg=PA215
"unforgettable 1886 auction ..."[1]
St. Clair, Michael (2016). "Americans Who Began to Collect Chinese Porcelain". The Great Chinese Art Transfer: How so Much of China's Art Came to America. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. pp. 129–146. ISBN 978-1-61147-910-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=xdCrCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA137
https://books.google.com/books?id=WGwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA136
https://books.google.com/books?id=he5MAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA204
https://books.google.com/books?id=4LRSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT105
https://books.google.com/books?id=yV4AuWFefjYC&pg=PA102

less useful https://books.google.com/books?id=jWQVAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA16

intro to collection[2]
"famous" at auction[3]
William T. Walters denies association even though his winning bid was an open secret[4]
per Baltimore, priced to justify original 15k sale to Morgan?; disproportionate to market value; not purchased by Walters[5]
Walters bought the vase but unclear whether he spent 18k; Morgan actually payed 12, not 15; original purchaser; some history of peachblow and "ashes of roses" porcelains[6]
origins[7][8]
Walters not showing the vase, April 1996[9]
Brayton Ives had the vase in 1888 but wasn't allowed to ask whence it came; was told it's the same as the Morgan vase; did not see the Morgan vase when visiting Walters[10]

Ives vase sold for $4,600 in 1891. Art collector Thomas B. Clarke, who had the winning bid, called it "the Gutenberg Bible of the art collection" while the other peachblow vases in the Ives sale went for prices the NYT described as "humiliating".[11] #669 not in Clarke 1931 auction?

Ives also bought from the Morgan auction (#525 "ashes of roses"), not sure if the same[12]

more sold in 1909 [13][14]

Impact

starts "porcelain bubble"[15][16]

Sources

'"Three-String" Vase ("The Peach Bloom Vase")'; #341 from Morgan sale (per catalog) at Walters[17]
- Walters' other items from Morgan sale (see provenance tabs)[18]
- glass imitation at Walters Art Museum[19]
Towner, Wesley; Varble, Stephen (1970). "Two Widows and the Bloom of the Peach". The Elegant Auctioneers. New York: Hill & Wang. pp. 67–114. ISBN 978-0-8090-4171-8.
see publications: https://www.cmog.org/artwork/morgan-vase-peachblow-glass
https://web.archive.org/web/20191228034240/https://gildedage3.omeka.net/exhibits/show/chineseporcelain/peachbloom/peachbloom

Legacy[edit]

Made Breton famous[20][21]

External links[edit]

Catalogue