Vase, mid/late 19th century

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with rose red glaze

Dimensions

overall: 15.2 x 10.1 cm (6 x 4 in.)

Credit Line

Harry G. Steele Collection, Gift of Grace C. Steele

Accession Number

1972.43.34

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Inscription

falsely inscribed in seal script on the base in overglaze red enamel in three columns of two characters each: Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi (made in the Qianlong reign of the great Qing dynasty)

Provenance

Harry G. Steele [1881-1942], Pasadena; his widow, Grace C. Steele [d. 1974]; gift 1972 to NGA.

Associated Names

Steele, Harry G., Mrs.
Steele, Harry Garfield

Technical Summary

The interior has a colorless glaze and the recessed base is glazed white. The foot-ring has been ground down; the glaze surface above the foot on the exterior has also been slightly ground.

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: 132, color repro.