Vase, Meiping Shape

second quarter 18th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    steatitic porcelain with colorless glaze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 15.2 x 8.2 cm (6 x 3 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.549


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Bettlick collection, Tianjin, China. Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; sold 1913 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

Bibliography

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 22.

1947

  • Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 24.

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: 138, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62758423


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