Vase, early 18th century

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with oxblood glaze

Dimensions

overall: 43.3 x 19.7 cm (17 1/16 x 7 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.526

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

M. J. Perry.[1] J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, New York); sold 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] Edith Standen's notes on Widener collection (in NGA curatorial files). Probably Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), Providence, Rhode Island, as he was a collector of Chinese porcelains, seven of which (instead of six as indicated in the NGA systematic catalogue) are currently in the NGA's collection.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Morgan, Sr., J. Pierpont
Perry, Marsden J.
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Exhibition History

1910: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910-1911.

Technical Summary

The white porcelain, revealed on the foot below the glaze, has the fine smooth texture of the period. Throwing rings can be felt on the glazed interior. Numerous small bubbles and a random crackle of ½ to 1 cm are clearly visible in the transparent depths of the glaze. In the transparent, pale aqua glaze of the base there is a fine mesh crackle, which is continuous from one glaze tint into the other. The unglazed foot has a squared bearing surface, within which the base is recessed about ¾ cm.

Bibliography

1904: Morgan 1904-1911, 2:7, no. 1302, pl. 3.

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): 34, 37 repro.; 1956, 34, 37, fig. 18.

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: 46-47, color repro.