Rouleau-Shaped Vase, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit

Dimensions

overall (height): 60 cm (23 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.621

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

Sir William Bennett [1852-1931]. (Gorer, London); (Dreicer and Co., New York, agent for Gorer, London); sold 1911 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

Bennett, William, Sir
Dreicer & Co.
Gorer
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Technical Summary

The vase has a concave base, which is covered with a green-tinted transparent glaze. The interior is glazed. The blue glaze is full of bubbles. The surface is touched up in many spots with paint, now discolored.

Bibliography

1910: Gorer 1910, 34, no. 96, frontispiece.

1911: Gorer/Blacker 1911, 1:pl. 1.f.

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: 189-191, color repro.