Peach Blow Vase

After 1886

8.6 cm 25 cm

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An 18th-century Chinese porcelain vase, reputed to be the finest of its kind, was sold for $18,000 at the auction of the Mary J. Morgan estate in 1886 in New York. So controversial was the price that William T. Walters never admitted to being the purchaser. Almost immediately,...

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W. M. Schwind, Jr. Antiiques, Yarmouth, Maine; Walters Art Museum, May 1989, by purchase.
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