Miniature Vase
1910/1930
Artist
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (height): 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1972.43.54
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
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: 245-246, color repro.
Inscriptions
falsely inscribed in seal script on the base in overglaze blue enamel in two columns of two characters each: Qianlong nian zhi (made in the reign of Qianlong); in black enamel on opposite side from floral design, a poetic couplet, accompanied by three seals in red enamel: ren (benevolence), the trigram Qian, and long (the emperor's reign title)
Wikidata ID
Q62758915