Vase Mounted as an Ewer
mid 18th century (vase); c. 1780/1785 (mounts)
Artist
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G12
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with light green celadon glaze and underglaze decoration in white slip, with lip, handle, and foot of gilded bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (without mount): 39.2 × 23.2 cm (15 7/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
overall (with mount): 61.2 × 24.6 cm (24 1/8 × 9 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1942.9.442
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Marquis de Montault, Château de la Terte, Trescuel, L'Aigle, Normandy. Charles J. Wertheimer [1842-1911], London. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1912 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
Exhibition History
1986
Mounted Chinese Porcelain, traveling exh. organized by the International Exhibitions Foundation, shown at The Frick Collection, New York; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, 1986-1987, no. 39.
Bibliography
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 19.
1980
Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980, 97, fig. 344.
1986
Mounted Chinese Porcelain. Exh. cat. The Frick Collection, New York; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami. Organized by International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1986: no. 39.
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: 264-265, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q62758258