Vase

probably Yongzheng period, 1723/1735

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    steatitic porcelain with colorless glaze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 32.4 x 19 cm (12 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.550

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Duveen Brothers, New York and London); sold 1914 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: 22.

1947

  • Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 29, 39, 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: 136, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62758424

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