Lantern

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/16 x 6 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.590


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Bennett, Northampton, England. (Gorer, London); (Dreicer & Co., New York, agents for Gorer, London);[1] sold 1912 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] Between 1900 and 1911 the lantern was provided with a silver stand (NGA 1942.9.591), which is inscribed on the foot: "PAIR KIANGHI [sic] IMPERIAL WARE EGGSHELL LAMPSHADES--FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF YANG LI SAN/MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. BEHEADED BY ORDER OF PRINCE TUAN DURING THE BOXER TROUBLES OF 1900."

Associated Names

Bibliography

1911

  • Gorer/Blacker 1911, 1:pl. 122.

1942

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

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: 214-217, color repro.

Inscriptions

decorated with four poetic couplets inscribed in black enamel in standard script, in parallel columns

Wikidata ID

Q62758549


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