Lantern, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.590

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Inscription

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

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

Bennett, Richard
Dreicer & Co.
Gorer
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Technical Summary

The lantern has two hairline cracks at the lip.

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.