Vase in the Shape of an Archaic Bronze Fang Hu
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with famille jaune enamels on the biscuit
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 50.8 x 19.8 x 17.8 cm (20 x 7 13/16 x 7 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.613
Artwork history & notes
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.
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Bibliography
1910
Gorer 1910, 34-35, no. 97, endpiece.
1911
Gorer/Blacker 1911, 1:pl. 34.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 24.
1947
Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 9, 11.
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: 164, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q62286082