Vase with the Flowers of the Four Seasons
1800s20 1/8 x 5 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (51.12 x 14.92 x 14.92 cm)
Creation Place:
China
Medium:
Enamel on porcelain
Credit Line:
Bequest of Charles Phelps Taft and Anna Sinton Taft
Accession Number:
1931.141
Not Currently on View
Provenance
Acquired by Chang-Yen Huan [1]. (Acquired by Duveen, New York, NY); purchased by Charles Phelps Taft [1843-1929] and Anna Sinton Taft [1850-1931], Cincinnati, OH, December 12, 1902 [2]; donated to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts, Cincinnati, OH, May 21, 1927 [3]; transferred to the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH, September 1, 2006 [4].Notes:
[1]. Chang-Yen Huan was the Chinese minister to Washington, D.C., and special envoy to Great Britain at Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, according to Catalogue of the Taft Museum, 1995. [2]. 1931.141 and 1931.153 were sold together as a “set of three” with a green-ground vase that is now missing. [3]. The Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts (CIFA) was formed by Charles Phelps and Anna Sinton Taft on March 22, 1927 as a non-profit corporation to stimulate the development of art and music in the City of Cincinnati and run the Taft Museum of Art, which opened in 1932. The Tafts offered $1 million for a permanent endowment fund, on the condition that the community raise $2.5 million in matching funds, which was achieved by December 3, 1928. [4]. Until August 31, 2006, the Museum was owned by CIFA, administered by CIFA’s Board of Trustees, and governed by the Taft Museum Board of Overseers. On September 1, 2006, the Museum legally separated from CIFA and began operations as its own incorporated 501(c)(3) entity. This separate incorporation led to the transfer to the separate entity after August 31, 2006 of all tangible assets comprising the Taft collection.
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