Bouke de Vries’s Memory Tobacco Jar VII, 2015 & Memory Vessel XXX, 2015 acquired by the Peabody Essex Museum
Typical of Bouke’s ‘Memory Vessels’, these pieces feature contemporary glass following the original form of its shattered contents. The Memory Tobacco Jar is made of an eighteenth century Delft drug jar with fragments from clay pipes. Memory Vessel XXX contains the collected remains of a 17th-18th century Kangxi Chinese Vase and cover.
The Peabody Essex Museum acquired these pieces ahead of the exhibition ‘Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age’ in 2016. Co-organised with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the exhibition featured 200 works of art – paintings, textiles, ceramics, silverware, lacquerware, furniture, jewellery and books – that reveal the extraordinary impact of Asian luxury goods on Dutch art and life in the 17th century.
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