Rouleau-Shaped Vase

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (height): 60 cm (23 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.622

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sir William Bennett [1852-1931]. (Gorer, London); (Dreicer and Co., New York, agent for Gorer, London); sold 1911 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

1910

  • Gorer 1910, 34, no. 96, frontispiece.

1911

  • Gorer/Blacker 1911, 1:pl. 1.f.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 24.

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: 189-191, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62758602

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