Petal-Decorated Vase

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Associated Names
Chinese Qing Dynasty

Artist

This sculpture is a vase with a long neck that flares out at the rim. The center of the vase is primarily a bright red color, but there are cream patches towards the top and bottom of the sculpture where the red appears faded. The lower part of the vase has a ribbed texture, and there are small lines of black pigment.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with peachbloom glaze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21.3 x 8.8 cm (8 3/8 x 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.511

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Bennett, Northampton, England; sold 1913 to (Gorer, London); sold 1914 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

Bibliography

1911

  • Gorer 1911, 71, no. 354, color pl. opp. p. 70.

  • Gorer/Blacker 1911, 2:color pl. 160.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 21.

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: 61-64, color repro.

Inscriptions

in standard script on the 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

Q62758331

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