Bottle Vase

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Associated Names
Chinese Qing Dynasty

Artist

The sculpture is a vase featuring a rounded body with a long, narrow neck. The vase is primarily made of a white material, and it is adorned with intricate designs. These designs include several black oval and leaf-shaped panels on the vase's body and neck, decorated with vibrant colors such as green, blue, yellow, and white. One of these panels on the body of the vase features a depiction of a snarling blue-and-white dragon with a yellow-and-green face set against a black background. The other visible panels have floral designs in white, yellow, blue, and green. Between these panels, the white body of the vase also appears to have been carved with white swirling floral designs. There are some small spots of brown discoloration on these designs at the bottom of the vase.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with famille noire enamels and carved decoration

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 38.7 x 21 cm (15 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.609

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

M. J. Perry, Providence, Rhode Island.[1] J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, New York); sold 1915 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.
[1] Edith Standen's notes on the Widener collection (in NGA curatorial files). Probably Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), Providence, Rhode Island, as he was a collector of Chinese porcelains, seven of which (instead of six as indicated in the NGA systematic catalogue) are currently in the NGA's collection.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1904

  • Morgan 1904-1911, 2:62, no. 1213, pl. 97.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 23.

1955

  • Koyama et al. 1955-1958, pl. 42.

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: 192-193, color repro.

Inscriptions

falsely inscribed in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in three columns of two characters each: Da Ming Xuande nian zhi (made in the Xuande reign of the great Ming dynasty)

Wikidata ID

Q62758590

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