Vase in the Form of a Carp, Mounted as an Ewer
Yongzheng period, 1723/1735 (vase); c. 1730/1755 (mounts)
Artist
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G12
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with blue celadon glaze, in gilt-bronze mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (without mount): 21.3 × 5.9 × 11.3 cm (8 3/8 × 2 5/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
overall (with mount): 31.4 × 10 × 16.4 cm (12 3/8 × 3 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1942.9.444
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Marquis de Montault, Château de la Terte, Trescuel, L'Aigle, Normandy. Lord Hastings, London. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1908 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
1980
Chinese Porcelains in European Mounts, China House Gallery, China Institute in American, New York, 1980, no. 30.
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. 32.
1994
Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, brochure, no. 78, as Chinese Vase in the Form of a Goldfish, on French Gilt-Bronze Mount by Chinese Qing Dynasty and Fre
2007
Loan for display with permanent collection, Seattle Art Museum, 2007-2009.
Bibliography
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 19.
1947
Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 26; 1956, 30.
1980
Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980, 95, fig. 331.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 34, color repro. 35.
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. 32.
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: 261-263, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q62758259