A BLUE AND WHITE 'JESUIT' VASE AND COVER

19TH CENTURY

Details

A BLUE AND WHITE 'JESUIT' VASE AND COVER
19TH CENTURY
Decorated front and back with a roundel featuring a Christian cross amidst variant flowers and foliage
5¼ in. (13.2 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

The Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 100

Literature

David Howard and John Ayers, op. cit., vol. I, p. 56-57, pl. 12

Exhibited

DeCordova Museum, 1979
Virginia Museum, 1981-82
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portugal and Porcelain, November 1984 - February 1985

Lot Essay

See the Portugal and Porcelain catalogue, p. 51, no. 18 where the author suggests that the present cross is similar to that used by the Jesuits but in this instance has been possibly disguised at the time of persecution of Oriental Christians.

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