Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with famille jaune enamels on the biscuit
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 6.1 x 13.2 cm (2 3/8 x 5 3/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1972.43.51
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York); sold December 1940 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: 209, color repro.
Inscriptions
in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in two columns of two characters each: Qinghua zhenqi (Precious vessel of the Hall of Pure Splendor)
Wikidata ID
Q62758892