Covered Jar in Gilt-Bronze Mount
mid/late 18th century
Artist
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G13
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamel decoration, in gilt-bronze mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (without mount): 62.9 x 36.2 cm (24 3/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
overall (with mount): 75.6 x 42.9 cm (29 3/4 x 16 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1942.9.440
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, New York and London); by whom sold 23 November 1917 to Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener after purchase by funds of the Estate.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 19.
1980
Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980, 64, fig. 178.
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: 266-267, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q62268425