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Description: | CRE UNKNOWN; This is Whistler's inktray set. The set is Chinese Imari and consists of an inkwell, penstand and sandbox in a tray, and is decorated with red, gold and blue with flowers. The University of Glasgow is home to 10,000 or so letters between Whistler and his contemporaries- selected of these are now online at http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/index.htm. The gallery's collection also contains several other items relating to Whistler's letter writing activity - a silver and uranium glass inkstand (54087), a writing desk (53581) and a quill pen (54141). The name Imari comes from the port of that name in Japan which exported vast amounts of porcelain, much of it similar to this item in colour, in the 17th and 18th centuries. A note accompanies the item. Written on the torn off edge from a sheet of postage stamps it reads;
"Chinese, late 18 Century". This item is part of the collection of over 330 pieces of Chinese ceramics and approximately 15 items of Japanese ceramics from the estate of James McNeill Whistler, gifted and bequeathed by the artist's sister-in-law, Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), in 1935 and 1958.
Birnie Philip Bequest, 1958. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | CERAMIC : WHISTLER : WRITING : CHINESE : STAND : WHISTLER CENTENARY : INK : TRAY : SAND : CORRESPONDENCE : PEN : INKWELL : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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