Asian Works of Art

Provenance:

James A. Garland (1840-1900), no. 443, 444 (labels)

John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), no. 999

Collection of Arthur L. Liebman (son of Ethel and Julius), d. 1920-1991 Active in Chicago and Milwaukee

Property of a Mid-Atlantic Institution, gift from the above, 1992.

Published:

Stephen W. Bushell and William M. Laffan Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, New York, 1907, p. 177, no. 999

來源：

Garland, no. 443（標籤）

John Pierpont Morgan (J.P摩根，1837-1913) 舊藏，編號 999。

Arthur L. Liebman（1920-1991）收藏，曾活躍於芝加哥與密歇根。

東海岸機構收藏，獲贈于1992年。

出版：

史蒂芬·W·布歇爾（Stephen W. Bushell）與威廉·M·拉芬（William M. Laffan）合著，《摩根收藏中國瓷器圖錄》，紐約, 1907年，第177頁，編號999。

Note:

The delicately potted 18th century teabowl and saucer, made and decorated in China with a beautiful woman (meiren) and boy in a garden, was once part of two of the most notable late 19th/early 20th century collections of Chinese porcelain ever assembled in America.

Labels affixed to the undersides indicate the teabowl and saucer were formerly in the collections of James A. Garland (1840-1900) and John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). Garland, a banker and co-founder of what was to become Citibank, assembled his collection of over 1000 pieces with the assistance of the Duveen Brothers. His collection was displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art until 1902, when Garland’s heirs sold it to the Duveen Brothers, who then sold it to Morgan.

Morgan was one of the most important financiers and philanthropists of the American Gilded Age. A doner to the Metropolitan, he served as president of the Board of Trustees from 1904-1913. While his son donated numerous important works to the Met after his death, his Chinese porcelain collection was acquired by the Duveen Brothers who distributed pieces among their wealthy clients including Henry Clay Frick and the Rockefellers. 

Many pieces from the Garland-Morgan collection are now in important public and private collections.

註：

是組十八世紀中國精緻盆栽紋茶盞及托碟，釉上繪有庭園仕女（美人）與孩童圖，曾先後隸屬美國史上兩大最負盛名的十九世紀末／二十世紀初中國瓷器收藏體系。

器底黏貼的收藏標籤顯示，此組茶器曾為詹姆斯·A·加蘭（1840-1900）與約翰·皮爾龐特·摩根（1837-1913）之舊藏。銀行家加蘭乃花旗銀行前身創辦人之一，其逾千件藏品皆透過杜維恩兄弟藝術商行蒐羅而得。該批珍藏曾於大都會藝術博物館展出至1902年，後由加蘭繼承人售予杜維恩兄弟，旋即轉售予摩根。

摩根身為美國鍍金時代最具影響力的金融家與慈善家，1904至1913年間出任大都會藝術博物館董事會主席。其逝世後雖有大量珍品經其子捐贈予大都會，但所藏中國瓷器皆由杜維恩兄弟購得，並分批售予亨利·克萊·弗里克、洛克菲勒家族等顯赫客戶。

如今，加蘭-摩根珍藏中的諸多精品，已散見於全球重要公私收藏機構。