Beaker Vase, mid 18th century

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels

Dimensions

overall: 35.6 x 18.4 cm (14 x 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.639

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

Gerard Lee Bevan, England; (his sale, Puttick & Simpson, London, 26 May 1922, no. 61); (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1922 to Joseph E. 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, after purchase by funds of the Estate; 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 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 Bevan sale is also noted on the Widener Collection card for this vase. P.A.B. Widener died in 1915, so this purchase in 1922 would have been made by Joseph E. Widener.

Associated Names

Bevan, Gerard Lee
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Puttick & Simpson
Widener, Joseph E.

Technical Summary

The foot-ring is smoothly rounded, and both the base and interior are glazed. The vase has a chip in the lip and a long, repaired and repainted crack in the upper side.

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.