Wine Pot, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Medium

porcelain with famille verte, famille jaune, and famille noire enamels on the biscuit

Dimensions

overall (with lid): 11.3 x 15.4 cm (4 7/16 x 6 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.561

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York, by 1904. (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

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

Technical Summary

Both this wine pot and 1942.9.562 are hand built, possibly from premolded sections. The flat bases are unglazed, and the interiors covered with a transparent pale green enamel. There is a small crack in the lip and a chip missing from the base.

Bibliography

1904: Morgan 1904-1911, 1:102, no. 636.

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

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: 161, color repro.