Large Fish Bowl

late 18th century

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Associated Names
Chinese Qing Dynasty

Artist

The sculpture is a ceramic pot decorated with floral motifs. The pot is blue with gold detailing and features an oval panel displaying colorful flowers against a white background. Surrounding the panel is a geometric pattern in gold. Animal head-shaped handles are on either side of the pot. The rim is white with a pink and orange pattern, and smaller floral motifs are repeated around the upper part of the pot.

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G36

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with blue and overglaze famille rose enamels

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 41.9 x 59.5 cm (16 1/2 x 23 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.641

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Duveen Brothers, New York and London); sold 1901 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: 242-243, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62286250

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