Updated 09 October 2024
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Design for a Vase
| Materials and Techniques | Ink and watercolour on blue paper |
|---|---|
| Size（cm） | 14.1 x 9.3 |
| Inscriptions | Printed on mount lower center: POLIDORO; inscribed in pen upper right: Caldara Polidoro di Caravaggio / No. 1; lower center: P. S. 122 |
| Credit Line | Ex-Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M1734 |
| Category | Drawings |
| Collection Number | D.2017-0041 |
Provenance
Nathaniel Hone, London [collector’s mark lower left (Lugt 2793)]; William Mayor, London [collector’s mark lower left (Lugt 2799)]; Edward J. Poynter, London [collector’s mark lower left: EJP (Lugt 874)]; Poynter sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 24–25 April 1918, lot 122, ‘Design for a Vase’ by Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio; Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, Tokyo, 1927; private collection, Japan; deposited in NMWA, 19 August 2009–18 March 2013, ref. no. 35; deposited again in NMWA, 25 January 2016, ref. no. 35; purchased by NMWA, 13 July 2017.
Bibliography
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1734, col. repr.
- 2019
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 52 (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2018), 2019, List of New Acquisitions. p. 24.