Li Tieguai, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit

Dimensions

overall (height): 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.597

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

Sir William Bennett [1852-1931]. (Gorer, London); sold 1910 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

Bennett, William, Sir
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Technical Summary

The enamel is flaking off the right hand; two fingertips are missing, and other fingers have been repaired.

Bibliography

1910: Gorer 1910, 20, no. 63.

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): 20.

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: 196-197, color repro.