Vase in the Form of a Carp, Mounted as an Ewer

Yongzheng period, 1723/1735 (vase); c. 1730/1755 (mounts)

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Attributed to

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G12

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with blue celadon glaze, in gilt-bronze mount

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (without mount): 21.3 × 5.9 × 11.3 cm (8 3/8 × 2 5/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
    overall (with mount): 31.4 × 10 × 16.4 cm (12 3/8 × 3 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.444

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marquis de Montault, Château de la Terte, Trescuel, L'Aigle, Normandy. Lord Hastings, London. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1908 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

1980

  • Chinese Porcelains in European Mounts, China House Gallery, China Institute in American, New York, 1980, no. 30.

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. 32.

1994

  • Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, brochure, no. 78, as Chinese Vase in the Form of a Goldfish, on French Gilt-Bronze Mount by Chinese Qing Dynasty and Fre

2007

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, Seattle Art Museum, 2007-2009.

Bibliography

1942

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

1947

  • Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 26; 1956, 30.

1980

  • Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980, 95, fig. 331.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 34, color repro. 35.

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. 32.

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: 261-263, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62758259

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