Baluster Vase, Kangxi period, 1662/1722

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Medium

porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels

Dimensions

overall: 77.5 x 29.5 cm (30 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.631

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; sold 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

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Technical Summary

The vessel is thrown in three sections that are luted together. The interior and recessed base are glazed, with a rounded foot-ring. There are numerous small pits and scratches in the glaze surface, several chips in the glaze at the edge of the lip, and two hairline cracks in the lower sides.

Bibliography

1955: Chemistry (December 1955): 27-29, repro. back cover.

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: 220, color repro.