Reticulated Perfume Ball
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with famille jaune enamels on the biscuit
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 9.4 x 9.9 cm (3 11/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.567
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Gorer, London); (Dreicer and Co., New York, agents of Gorer, 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.
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Bibliography
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 23.
1947
Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 16.
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: 172-173, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q62758457