Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamels
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 3.2 x 22.9 cm (1 1/4 x 9 in.)
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Accession Number
1972.43.62
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Parish-Watson Gallery, 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: 269, color repro.
Inscriptions
falsely inscribed in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in two columns of three characters each: Da Ming Wanli nian zhi (made in the Wanli reign of the great Ming dynasty)
Wikidata ID
Q62758927