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
Richard Bennett, Northampton, England, sold 1911 to (Gorer, London); (Dreicer & Co., New York, agents of Gorer, London); 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
Bennett, RichardDreicer & Co.
Gorer
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown
Technical Summary
The inside of the cover has smudges of vermilion seal paste.
Bibliography
- 1911
- Gorer 1911, 72, no. 360, color pl. opp. 70.
- 1911
- Gorer/Blacker 1911, 2:color pl. 160.
- 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.
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