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Vase
Chinese for export
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Porcelain, colored enamels, gilding
Credit Line
Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection
Accession Number39.633a
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionPart of a five-piece garniture set 39.633-7 consisting of three covered vases and two flaring vases. Paneled and bulbous body, ornamented with medallions of floral designs against imitation-shagreen ground.
ProvenanceJuliana Cheney Edwards Collection. 1939, bequest of Grace M. Edwards to the MFA. [see note 1] (Accession Date: October 11, 1939).
NOTES:
[1] Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned
NOTES:
[1] Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned