Large Jar

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Associated Names
Chinese Qing Dynasty

Artist

This is an intricately decorated vase with a lid. The surface is predominantly black. The design includes an array of green leaves and white branches with bright orange-red and white blooms. The vase also includes a depiction of a fantastical creature with a long, thin neck, white scales or feathers, a yellow body, and green wings. The lid of the vase continues the intricate pattern, with additional floral elements in red and green. In between the branches and leaves are large overlapping rectangular shapes in pale green.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (height with lid): 62.8 cm (24 3/4 in.)
    overall (lid): 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.)
    overall (height without lid): 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.629

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; sold 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: 24.

1947

  • Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 12.

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: 188-189, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62286181

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