Covered Jar

mid 18th century (jar); 19th century (mount)

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels, on gilded bronze mount

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 50.8 x 25.4 cm (20 x 10 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.637

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

Q62758667

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