Bottle Vase Made for a Portuguese Trader

1552 (Late Ming Dynasty)

13.2 cm 25.4 cm

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Trading and exchange between China and the Portuguese began after Manuel I established an embassy at Beijing in 1517. The Portuguese exported and traded blue and white porcelain throughout Europe. This bottle is one of six known "Jorge Álvares bottles," named for the Portugues...

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Laffan Sale, 1911, lot 75; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911 [mode of acquisition unknown]; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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