Gourd-Shaped Vase

late 17th/mid 18th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with pale blue glaze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 13.9 x 6.1 cm (5 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.480

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Yamanaka & Co., sale, American Art Association, New York, 16-17 February 1915, no. 28). (Duveen Brothers, New York and London); 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.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 20.

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: 90-92, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62268471

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