Petal-Decorated Vase
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with celadon glaze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 21.4 x 8.6 cm (8 7/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.499
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York; (Duveen Brothers, New York and London); sold 1915 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
1910
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, c. 1910-1911.
Bibliography
1904
Morgan 1904-1911, 2:81, no. 1334, pl. 128.
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): 26, 32, repro.; 1956, 30, 32, fig. 14.
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: 101-103, color repro.
Inscriptions
in standard script on base in underglaze blue in three vertical lines of two characters each: Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (made in the Kangxi reign of the great Qing dynasty)
Wikidata ID
Q62268495