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image of Baluster Vase with Dragon Handles
Chinese Ming Dynasty (artist)
Baluster Vase with Dragon Handles, Wanli period, 1573/1620
porcelain with green glaze
overall: 39.9 x 13.9 cm (15 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Widener Collection
1942.9.532
From the Tour: Chinese Porcelains
Object 2 of 24
1904Morgan 1904-1911, 1:17, no. 16, pl. 61.
1907Bushell, Stephen, and William M. Laffan. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of the Chinese Porcelains in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1907: 26, no. 19, repro.
1915Hobson, R. L. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain. New York, 1915: 2, 79.
1942Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 21.
1947Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 23, repro. 28, 29; 1956: 24, repro. 28, fig. 11, 12.
1988Jenyns, Soame. Ming Pottery and Porcelain. London, 1988: 139, repro. 190.
1998Bower, 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: 42-44, color repro.

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