- Inscription
- Provenance
- Bibliography
Overview
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Inscription
in calligraphy in a style consistent with Wanli in a horizontal white reserve panel under the lip in dark, vivid underglaze cobalt blue: Da Ming Wanli nian zhi (made in the Wanli reign of the great Ming Dynasty)
Marks and Labels
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Provenance
(S. Bing, Paris); James A. Garland [d. 1901/1902], New York; sold 1902 to 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.
Exhibition History
Bibliography
- 1904
- Morgan 1904-1911, 1:17, no. 16, pl. 61.
- 1907
- Bushell, 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.
- 1915
- Hobson, R. L. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain. New York, 1915: 2, 79.
- 1942
- Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 21.
- 1947
- Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 23, repro. 28, 29; 1956: 24, repro. 28, fig. 11, 12.
- 1988
- Jenyns, Soame. Ming Pottery and Porcelain. London, 1988: 139, repro. 190.
- 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: 42-44, color repro.
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