Flask with the Royal Arms of Spain Yale University Art Gallery

1610–20

Medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under clear glaze
Dimensions: H.: 11 3/4 in. (29.8 cm)
Credit Line: Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Fund
Accession Number: 2024.4.1
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

The Peony Pavilion Collection, Japan, by 1989; sale, Christie’s, London, June 12, 1989, lot 401; sold to private collection, Europe, June 12, 1989, lot 401. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, October 14, 1993, lot 152; sold to Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, October 14, 1993; sold to Joyce Wolf (1927–-2022) and Erving Wolf (1926–2018), New York, October 14, 1993; and by descent to their children, by 2023; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, April 19, 2023, lot 45; sold to Jorge Welsh, London, April 19, 2023; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2023

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

flasks (bottles)

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