"Two days after Gauguin joined Van Gogh at the Yellow House in Arles in October 1888 he wrote to his Parisian artist friend Émile Schuffenecker: "We are here in a small, rather charming little house, and I would like to have some pottery to look at". Schuffenecker, who was looking after some of Gauguin's effects, sent him two ceramics, including the requested Cleopatra Pot."
"On Christmas Day, Vincent's brother Theo arrived by train from Paris to visit him in hospital, and that night Theo and Gauguin returned to Paris together. Soon afterwards Gauguin presented the Cleopatra Pot to Theo, who was an art dealer in Paris, partly to thank him for having mounted an exhibition of his work a few weeks earlier. On Theo's death in 1891, the ceramic remained with his widow Jo Bonger."
Paul Gauguin produced the Cleopatra Pot in winter 1887–88 and the object became associated with Vincent van Gogh, his brother Theo, and the Sunflowers. Two days after Gauguin arrived at the Yellow House in Arles he requested pottery and Émile Schuffenecker sent him two ceramics, including the Cleopatra Pot. Following Van Gogh's ear incident in December 1888, Theo visited him in hospital and left Arles with Gauguin. Gauguin later presented the pot to Theo as thanks for mounting an exhibition. After Theo's death in 1891 the ceramic stayed with his widow Jo Bonger and appears in a 1925–26 photograph of her bedroom.
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