"Beehive" Water Pot, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Medium

porcelain with peachbloom glaze

Dimensions

overall: 89 x 12.5 cm (35 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.515

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Inscription

in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in three widely spaced vertical columns of two characters each: Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (made in the Kangxi reign of the great Qing dynasty)

Provenance

Possibly collection of Lord Kitchener.[1] Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1913], New York; sold 1913[2] 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] Widener collection records (in NGA curatorial files).

[2] The provenance published in the NGA systematic catalogue entry (Little et al. 1998, 69) is in error stating the sale from Clarke was in 1916. The pot was purchased by P.A.B. Widener in 1913 according to Widener collection records (in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Kitchener, Lord
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Bibliography

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

1947: Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 30; 1956, 34.

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: 69-70, color repro.