Beaker Vase
mid 18th century
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 34.9 x 19.1 cm (13 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.638
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1915 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[1] inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] The early provenance cited here is an update to the provenance published in the NGA systematic catalogue entry (Little et al. 1998, 237-238). The published provenance, indicating a purchase by P.A.B. Widener from Duveen in 1915 or 1922 was based on confusion resulting from the Lynnewood Hall inventory sheet for 1942.9.638 and 1942.9.639, annotated with notes by Widener curator Edith Standen, having originally been cut in half and each half filed separately in its object folder. Miss Standen's notes on the full sheet do clarify that the two vases were bought separately, as indicated in this revised provenance. The Morgan Collection is also noted on the Widener Collection card for this vase.
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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
Q62286244