Petal-Decorated Vase

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with celadon glaze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21.4 x 8.6 cm (8 7/16 x 3 3/8 in.)

  • 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


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