"Beehive" Water Pot
Kangxi period, 1662/1722
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with peachbloom glaze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 8.8 x 12.7 cm (3 7/16 x 5 in.)
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Accession
1972.43.15
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Harry G. Steele [1881-1942], Pasadena; his widow, Grace C. Steele [d. 1974]; gift 1972 to NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
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: 71, color repro.
Inscriptions
in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in three columns of two characters each: Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (made in the Kangxi reign of the great Qing dynasty)
Wikidata ID
Q62758787