Lantern

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Associated Names
Chinese Qing Dynasty

Artist

This is an ornate ceramic vase with green and red decorative patterns and landscape illustrations. Against a light green background are panels depicting scenes of nature, with elements like rocks, trees, water, buildings and small figures. Between these scenes are floral designs in red, green, white, and dark blue. The top and bottom of the vase are decorated with geometric patterns in black, green, and red.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21.6 x 15.2 cm (8 1/2 x 6 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.588

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Bennett, Northampton, England. (Gorer, London); (Dreicer & Co., New York, agents for Gorer, London);[1] sold 1912 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] Between 1900 and 1911 the lantern was provided with a silver stand (NGA 1942.9.589), which is inscribed on the foot: "PAIR KIANGHI [sic] IMPERIAL WARE EGGSHELL LAMPSHADES--FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF YANG LI SAN/MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. BEHEADED BY ORDER OF PRINCE TUAN DURING THE BOXER TROUBLES OF 1900."

Associated Names

Bibliography

1911

  • Gorer/Blacker 1911, 1:pl. 122.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 23.

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: 214-217, color repro.

Inscriptions

decorated with four poetic couplets inscribed in black enamel in standard script, in parallel columns

Wikidata ID

Q62285945

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