Vase in the Shape of a Double Gourd, 18th century

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with yellow glaze

Dimensions

overall: 43.6 x 24.8 cm (17 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.552

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

M. J. Perry.[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

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Morgan, Sr., J. Pierpont
Perry, Marsden J.
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Technical Summary

This large vase is made from two globular sections luted together at the waist; the lower section is itself made in two parts. The upper section rises in a tapering neck to the lip. Two parallel grooves encircle the waist. With the exception of the rounded foot-ring, the entire vessel is covered with a deep yellow transparent glaze.

Bibliography

1904: Morgan 1904-1911, 2:80, no. 1315, pl. 121.

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 22.

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: 133, color repro.