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| Keywords: Chinese - Bottle Vase Made for a Portuguese Trader - Walters 491616 - Side A.jpg The inscription around the shoulder of this blue and white bottle written upside-down in imitation of a Portuguese model states that the vase was made in 1552 for Jorge Anriques a Portuguese trading ship captain 1552 porcelain with underglaze blue cm 25 4 accession number 49 1616 411 Laffan Sale 1911 Henry Walters Baltimore 1911 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 dated 1552 / Portuguese inscriptions Jorge Alvrz n egeo nam dou - a era de 1552 reina Translation Jorge Alvarez ordered this to be made in the year 1552 of the reign of King John III World of Wonder Walters Masterpieces of Chinese Porcelain Walters Portuguese Discoveries and Renaissance Europe Jerónimos Monastery Lisbon 1983 Saint Francis Xavier His Life and Times Kawasaki City Museum Kawasaki; Yamaguchi Perfectural Museum of Art Yamaguchi-shi; Tobu Museum of Art Tokyo; Kagoshima Prefectural Museum of Art Kagoshima City; Okazaki Mindscape Museum Okazaki-shi; Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum Nagasaki City 1999 Encompassing the Globe Freer Gallery of Art Washington 2007 place of origin China Walters Art Museum license World of Wonder Walters Art of China in Masterpieces of Chinese Porcelain Walters Chinese porcelain in the Walters Art Museum Blue and white porcelain of the Ming Dynasty Yuhuchun 16th-century way of life preserved artefacts Exoticism in European culture Exotic decorative artefacts Chinese export porcelain in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
