Lion on High Pedestal
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (lion): 25.1 x 18.4 x 10.6 cm (9 7/8 x 7 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.)
overall (pedestal): 13.7 x 23.7 x 15.7 cm (5 3/8 x 9 5/16 x 6 3/16 in.) -
Accession
1942.9.603
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Duveen Brothers, New York and London); 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.
Associated Names
Bibliography
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): 18, 20-21.
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: 206-207, color repro.
Inscriptions
san (three) incised on the interior of the pedestal and on the base
Wikidata ID
Q62286018