Beaker Vase, mid 18th century

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels

Dimensions

overall: 34.9 x 19.1 cm (13 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.638

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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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.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Morgan, Sr., J. Pierpont
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.