Covered Jar, mid 18th century (jar); 19th century (mount)

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels, on gilded bronze mount

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.637

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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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

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Technical Summary

The foot-ring is smoothly rounded, and both the base and interior are glazed.

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.