Hexagonal Lantern, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels on the biscuit

Dimensions

overall: 28.5 x 19.4 cm (11 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.587

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

(S. Bing, Paris); sold 1884 to Mary J. Morgan [d. 1885], New York; (her estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 3-15 March 1886 [9 March], no. 532); purchased by James A. Garland [d. 1901/1902], New York. J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York; R. Austin Robertson [d. 1892], New York; (his estate sale, American Art Association at Chickering Hall [7-8 April 1892] and American Art Galleries [11-27 April 1892], New York, 6th day [14 April 1892], no. 691);[1] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); 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.

[1] This sale was kindly brought to the Gallery's attention by Diana Kostyrko; see her e-mail of 15 January 2010, in NGA curatorial files. Newspaper coverage of the sale, and an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the NGA Library, confirm Duveen's purchase.

Associated Names

American Art Association
American Art Association
Bing, S.
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Garland, James A.
Morgan, Mary J.
Morgan, Sr., J. Pierpont
Robertson, R. Austin
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Bibliography

1904: Morgan 1904-1911, 1:73, nos. 462-463, pls. 24, 26 [references for 1942.9.586-587].

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 23.

1947: Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 16, 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: 212-214, color repro.