Jar

late 18th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with apple-green glaze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21.6 x 18.5 cm (8 1/2 x 7 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.534

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York; (Duveen Brothers, New York and London); sold 1915 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.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1910

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

Bibliography

1904

  • Morgan 1904-1911, 2:91, no. 1387.

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): 23, repro.; 1956, 23-24, 27, fig. 10d.

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: 122-123, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62268535

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