
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit
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Credit Line
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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