Bottle Vase
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 14.9 x 10.2 cm (5 7/8 x 4 in.)
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Accession
1972.43.9
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Parish-Watson Gallery, New York); sold to Harry G. Steele [1881-1942], Pasadena; his widow, Grace C. Steele [d. 1974]; gift 1972 to NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
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: 248, color repro.
Inscriptions
falsely inscribed in standard script around the neck in underglaze blue in one line of six characters: Da Ming Xuande nian zhi (made in the Xuande reign of the great Ming dynasty)
Wikidata ID
Q62758777