Miniature Table

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with famille jaune enamels on the biscuit

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 7.1 x 33.3 x 14.8 cm (2 13/16 x 13 1/8 x 5 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.558

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York, by 1904. (Duveen Brothers, New York and London); sold 1915[1] 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] Widener collection records (in NGA curatorial files) note that the table was "Bought from Duveen, 1915." The year of the sale to Widener was not included in the provenance published in the NGA systematic catalogue entry (Little et al. 1998, 170).

Associated Names

Bibliography

1904

  • Morgan 1904-1911, 1:113, no. 742, pl. 41.

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): 20.

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: 168-170, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62268563

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