Bottle Vase
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with famille noire enamels and carved decoration
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 38.7 x 21 cm (15 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.609
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
M. J. Perry, Providence, Rhode Island.[1] J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, New York); sold 1915 to Peter A. B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Edith Standen's notes on the Widener collection (in NGA curatorial files). Probably Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), Providence, Rhode Island, as he was a collector of Chinese porcelains, seven of which (instead of six as indicated in the NGA systematic catalogue) are currently in the NGA's collection.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1904
Morgan 1904-1911, 2:62, no. 1213, pl. 97.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 23.
1955
Koyama et al. 1955-1958, pl. 42.
1998
Bower, Virginia, Josephine Hadley Knapp, Stephen Little, and Robert Wilson Torchia. Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 192-193, color repro.
Inscriptions
falsely inscribed in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in three columns of two characters each: Da Ming Xuande nian zhi (made in the Xuande reign of the great Ming dynasty)
Wikidata ID
Q62758590