Baluster Vase

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G11

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 75.2 x 28.3 cm (29 5/8 x 11 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.607

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Bennett, Northampton, England. (Gorer, London); (Dreicer and Co., New York, agent for 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

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, figs. 5, 6.

1955

  • Koyama et al. 1955-1958, 176, fig. 17.

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: 156, color repro.

Inscriptions

falsely inscribed in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in three vertical columns of two characters each within a double circle: Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi (made in the Jiajing reign of the great Ming dynasty)

Wikidata ID

Q62758561

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