Water Pot

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with peachbloom glaze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 7.6 x 9.9 cm (3 x 3 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.503

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

M. Startseff, Tientsin. J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, New York); 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

Exhibition History

1910

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, c. 1910-1911.

Bibliography

1942

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

1947

  • Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 35, repro.

1957

  • Chait, Ralph M. "The Eight Prescribed Peachbloom Shapes Bearing Kanh-hsi Marks." Oriental Art 3 (Winter 1957): 130-137, 137, repro. 135.

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: 72-73, color repro.

Inscriptions

in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in three vertical columns of two characters each: Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (made in the Kangxi reign of the great Qing dynasty)

Wikidata ID

Q62758307

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