Baluster Vase
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Artist
Chinese Qing Dynasty
Attributed to

Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (height): 43.2 cm (17 in.)
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Accession Number
1942.9.605
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, New York and 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.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1904
Morgan 1904-1911, 2:64, no. 1227, pl. 101.
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: 154, color repro.
Inscriptions
falsely inscribed in standard script on the base in underglaze red in two columns of three characters each: Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi (made in the Chenghua reign of the great Ming dynasty)
Wikidata ID
Q62286023