Vase with Ringed Neck
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: 19.3 x 8 cm (7 5/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.501
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Yamanaka & Co., sale, American Art Association, New York, 29-31 January 1914, no. 319);[1] sold 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.
[1] The previous owner of this vase may have been the "Chinese nobleman of Tien-Ts'in [Tianjin]" mentioned in the title of the Yamanaka sale catalogue.
Associated Names
Bibliography
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.
1955
Koyama et al. 1955-1958, 12, 176, fig. 18.
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: 103-105, 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
Q62268497