Bottle Vase

late 17th/early 18th century

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Associated Names
Chinese Qing Dynasty

Artist

This is a large ceramic vase with a long neck and rounded body. The vase is bright green with a crackle glaze pattern that creates thin, branching cracks across its surface. The lip at the top is white, and the interior appears black.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with apple-green glaze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 18.2 x 11.1 cm (7 3/16 x 4 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.535

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Bennett, Northampton, England; sold 1911 to (Gorer, London); (Dreicer & Co., New York, agents of Gorer); sold 1914 to Peter A. B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1911

  • Gorer 1911, 70, no. 346.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 21.

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: 108-110, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62758389

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