Water Pot

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with pale blue glaze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 7.3 x 10.5 cm (2 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.490


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Bennett, Northampton, England; sold 1911 to (Gorer, London); (Dreicer & Co., New York, agents of Gorer, London); sold 1913 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

1911

  • Catalogue of the Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains formed by Richard Bennett, Thornby Hall, Northampton, Gorer, London, 1911, 74, no. 369.

Bibliography

1911

  • Gorer 1911, 74, no. 369.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 20.

1947

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

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: 93-97, color repro.

Inscriptions

in standard script on base in underglaze blue in three vertical columns of two characters each: Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (made in the Kangxi reign of the great Qing dynasty)

Wikidata ID

Q62758286


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