Large Covered Baluster Jar

late 18th century

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Associated Names
Chinese Qing Dynasty

Artist

This is an elaborately decorated urn or vase with a lid. It features colorful floral patterns with large blossoms in shades of pink, yellow, and white, smaller blossoms in blue, small green leaves, and cranes with white and black feathers and long beaks. The base and neck of the vase have stripes of colors such as red, green, yellow, and white. The lid is topped with a sculptural figure of a dog or lion in pink and green.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (with cover): 133.4 x 48.9 cm (52 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.)
    overall (height without cover): 107.6 cm (42 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.633

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Duveen Brothers, New York and London); sold 1914 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.

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: 240-241, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62286232

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