Reticulated Box

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with famille jaune enamels on the biscuit

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.2 x 24.9 cm (10 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.568

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

George R. Davies, Cheshire, England. (Gorer, London); (Dreicer and Co., New York, agents of Gorer, London); sold 1913 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

1911

  • Gorer/Blacker 1911, 1:pl. 62.

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: 174-175, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62268573

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