Vase Mounted as an Ewer

mid 18th century (vase); c. 1780/1785 (mounts)

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Attributed to

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G12


Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with light green celadon glaze and underglaze decoration in white slip, with lip, handle, and foot of gilded bronze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (without mount): 39.2 × 23.2 cm (15 7/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
    overall (with mount): 61.2 × 24.6 cm (24 1/8 × 9 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.442


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marquis de Montault, Château de la Terte, Trescuel, L'Aigle, Normandy. Charles J. Wertheimer [1842-1911], London. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1912 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

Exhibition History

1986

  • Mounted Chinese Porcelain, traveling exh. organized by the International Exhibitions Foundation, shown at The Frick Collection, New York; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, 1986-1987, no. 39.

Bibliography

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 19.

1980

  • Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980, 97, fig. 344.

1986

  • Mounted Chinese Porcelain. Exh. cat. The Frick Collection, New York; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami. Organized by International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1986: no. 39.

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: 264-265, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62758258


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