Vase in the Shape of a Double Gourd

18th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with yellow glaze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 43.6 x 24.8 cm (17 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.552

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

M. J. Perry.[1] J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, New York); 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.
[1] Edith Standen's notes on the Widener collection (in NGA curatorial files). Probably Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), Providence, Rhode Island, as he was a collector of Chinese porcelains, seven of which (instead of six as indicated in the NGA systematic catalogue) are currently in the NGA's collection.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1904

  • Morgan 1904-1911, 2:80, no. 1315, pl. 121.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 22.

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: 133, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62268557

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