Baluster Vase

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 77.5 x 29.5 cm (30 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.631


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

1955

  • Chemistry (December 1955): 27-29, repro. back cover.

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: 220, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62758639


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