Baluster Vase, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Medium

porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit

Dimensions

overall (height): 69.4 cm (27 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.624

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York, by 1904. (Duveen Brothers, New York and 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

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Morgan, Sr., J. Pierpont
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Technical Summary

This vase is made of three sections that are luted together. The interior is glazed with a transparent greenish glaze. The vessel has been repaired and repainted halfway up the side of the lower body. A brownish black material covers the recessed area of the base.

Bibliography

1904: Morgan 1904-1911, 1:120, no. 783, pl. 48.

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: 184, color repro.