Square Vase

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 49.2 x 14.6 cm (19 3/8 x 5 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.616

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frank Partridge and Sons, 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

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: 178-179, color repro.

Inscriptions

in standard script in the recessed square on the base in underglaze blue in two columns of three characters each: Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (made in the Qing reign of the great Kangxi dynasty)

Wikidata ID

Q62286130

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