Covered Box for Seal Paste, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with peachbloom glaze

Dimensions

overall: 3.8 x 7.2 cm (1 1/2 x 2 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.523

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 Kangzi nian zhi (made in the Kangzi reign of the great Qing dynasty)

Provenance

Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; sold 1913 to Peter A. B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park.

Associated Names

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

Technical Summary

The lower half has a sharp inclusion in the glaze.

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: 58-60, color repro.