Zun-Shaped Beaker Vase
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 46.6 x 23 cm (18 3/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.615
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richard Bennett, Northampton, England. (Gorer, London); (Dreicer and Co., New York, agent for Gorer, London); sold 1915 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
1911
Gorer/Blacker 1911, 1:pl. 8.
Gorer 1911, 64, no. 328.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 24.
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: 180-181, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q62758597