Collection of Porcelain

Chinese

The Royal Pavilion

8 items: Pair of Chinese porcelain baluster vases and covers; Chinese famille rose garniture - vase and two beakers; Pair of Chinese bowls and covers. Japanese black and gold lacquer cabinet currently missing from the collection. Part of the Cook bequest. Mr Ernest Edward Cook, grandson of Thomas Cook, the founder of the Travel Agency, was well-known for many benefactions during his lifetime. When he died on 15 March 1955, at the age of 89, he bequeathed the entire contents of his house at No.1 Sion Hill Place, Bath, to the Art Fund to be distributed to museums and galleries in England. This bequest, which was, at the time, the most important ever left to the Art Fund, comprises over 150 pictures, as well as Beauvais and Mortlake tapestries, Chippendale and other English furniture, English silver, and Chinese, Continental and English porcelain. The distribution, by the Fund, of this outstanding bequest enhanced the collections of nearly a hundred museums and galleries throughout the country.

• Medium: porcelain /wood
• ArtFunded in: 1955
• Bequeathed by Ernest Edward Cook through The Art Fund

Provenance

Part of the E E Cook collection, grandson of Thomas Cook of Thomas Cook Travel Agency. Died in 1955 and bequeathed the entire contents of his house at Bath to the National Art Collections Fund.

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