Large Fish Bowl, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Medium

porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels

Dimensions

overall: 42.9 × 58.3 cm, 80 lb. (16 7/8 × 22 15/16 in., 36.288 kg)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.644

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

(Duveen Brothers, New York and London); sold 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.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Technical Summary

This piece is thickly potted with a dense white body. The interior is undecorated and has a colorless glaze. The concave base is unglazed. Several circular spots of glaze loss are evident on the surface.

Bibliography

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 24.

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: 222, color repro.