Wine Ewer

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (with lid): 33 x 17.8 cm (13 x 7 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.563

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

Bibliography

1904

  • Morgan 1904-1911, 1:12, no. 10, pl. 46.

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): 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: 210-211, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62268568

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