A Bit of Blue – (Henry Stacy Marks) Previous Next


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Date: 1877

Museum: Royal Albert Memorial Museum - Art Gallery (Exeter, United Kingdom)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

A figure wearing a long coat and black cap stands next to a table. He is inspecting a blue/white vase which has just been unpacked from a crate. Top right is a wall mounted shelf with further example of the porcelain.The subject is depicted holding a K’ang Hsi (1662-1722) porcelain ginger jar with similar porcelain in the background; these wares were seriously collected in the 1870s & 1880s.Purchased with assistance from the Kent Kingdon Bequest, 1911

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