Cup
Yongzheng period, 1723/1735
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze doucai enamel decoration
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 4.7 x 7.6 cm (1 7/8 x 3 in.)
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Accession
1972.43.42
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Yamanaka, Chicago); sold to Harry G. Steele [1881-1942], Pasadena; his widow, Grace C. Steele [d. 1974]; gift 1972 to NGA.
Associated Names
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: 228, color repro.
Inscriptions
falsely inscribed in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in two columns of three characters each: Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi (made in the Chenghua reign of the great Ming dynasty)
Wikidata ID
Q62758856