Petal-Decorated Vase
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with peachbloom glaze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 21.2 x 8.9 cm (8 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.521
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Possibly collection of Lord Kitchener.[1] Sold after 1917 to Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, after purchase by funds of the Estate; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Widener collection records in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Bibliography
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
Q62758363