Covered Jar
mid 18th century (jar); 19th century (mount)
Artist
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G13
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels, on gilded bronze mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 50.8 x 25.4 cm (20 x 10 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.635
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1907 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, 2:pl. 201.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 24.
1947
Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 34-38.
1955
Koyama et al. 1955-1958, 180, fig. 36.
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: 236-239, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q62286237