Baluster Vase

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Associated Names
Chinese Qing Dynasty

Artist

The sculpture is a porcelain vase featuring an intricate design of blossoming cherry branches. The vase has a predominantly black glaze background, with the cherry blossoms in white and light green. The material is porcelain, providing a smooth, glossy finish. The vase has a flared rim, elongated neck, bulbous body, and a narrowed base. The branches are painted to suggest depth and texture, giving a natural, flowing composition that winds elegantly around the vase. The detailed craftsmanship draws attention, allowing viewers to appreciate it from different perspectives.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (height): 67.4 cm (26 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.625

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York, by 1904. (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, 1:120, no. 785, pl. 52.

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: 185, color repro.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q62758631

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