"Beehive" Water Pot
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with peachbloom glaze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 89 x 12.5 cm (35 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.515
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Possibly collection of Lord Kitchener.[1] Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1913], New York; sold 1913[2] 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.
[1] Widener collection records (in NGA curatorial files).
[2] The provenance published in the NGA systematic catalogue entry (Little et al. 1998, 69) is in error stating the sale from Clarke was in 1916. The pot was purchased by P.A.B. Widener in 1913 according to Widener collection records (in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Bibliography
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 21.
1947
Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 30; 1956, 34.
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: 69-70, color repro.
Inscriptions
in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in three widely spaced vertical columns of two characters each: Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (made in the Kangxi reign of the great Qing dynasty)
Wikidata ID
Q62758337