Baluster Vase, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit

Dimensions

overall (height): 42.2 cm (16 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.617

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

(Frank Partridge and Sons, London); sold 1911 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

Partridge and Sons, Ltd., Frank
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Technical Summary

This vase is made of two sections that are joined below the shoulder. The interior and the recessed base are covered with a bluish white glaze, and the foot-ring is rounded. The lip is chipped in two places.

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: 182-183, color repro.