Petal-Decorated Vase

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with peachbloom glaze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 20.8 x 8.8 cm (8 3/16 x 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.513


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; sold (possibly 1907) 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

1907

  • Loan Exhibition of Rare Chinese Porcelains in Aid of Various Charities, Duveen Brothers, New York, 1907, no. 333.

Bibliography

1907

  • Loan Exhibition of Rare Chinese Porcelains in Aid of Various Charities. Exh. cat. Duveen Brothers, New York, 1907: no. 333.

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

Q62758334


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