Petal-Decorated Vase, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with peachbloom glaze

Dimensions

overall: 21.3 x 8.9 cm (8 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.522

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Inscription

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)

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

Kitchener, Lord
Widener, Joseph E.

Technical Summary

There is a small glaze flaw on the shoulder.

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.