Jar
late 18th century
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with apple-green glaze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 20.6 x 18.5 cm (8 1/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.533
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
George R. Davies, Cheshire, England; sold 1913 to (Gorer, London); (Dreicer and Co., New York, agent for Gorer, London); sold 1913 to General Brayton Ives [1840-1914], New York; (his sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 8-10 April 1915, no. 119); (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
Exhibition History
1910
Burlington Arts Club, London, 1910.
Bibliography
1911
Gorer/Blacker 1911, 2:pl. 167.
1913
"Chinese Porcelain in the Davies Collection," The Burlington Magazine 23 (April-September 1913): 162-167.
Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains formed by George R. Davies, Esq. Formerly of Hartford, Cheshire, and now of Parton, N.B.; Purchased by Gorer and Exhibited at the Galleries of Dreicer & Co. London, 1913: 34, no. 159, pl.7.
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): 23; 1956, 23-24.
1991
Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 197, color repro.
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: 122-123, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q62268534