Baluster Vase
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Chinese Qing Dynasty
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: 75.2 x 28.3 cm (29 5/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1942.9.607
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richard Bennett, Northampton, England. (Gorer, London); (Dreicer and Co., New York, agent for Gorer, London); sold 1913 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): 16, figs. 5, 6.
1955
Koyama et al. 1955-1958, 176, fig. 17.
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: 156, color repro.
Inscriptions
falsely inscribed in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in three vertical columns of two characters each within a double circle: Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi (made in the Jiajing reign of the great Ming dynasty)
Wikidata ID
Q62758561