Large Fish Bowl, mid 19th century

Not on View

Medium

porcelain with underglaze blue and famille verte enamels

Dimensions

overall: 46.4 × 57.6 cm, 73 lb. (18 1/4 × 22 11/16 in., 33.113 kg)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.647

Artists / Makers

Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)

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Provenance

(Duveen Brothers, New York and London); sold 1904 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

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Technical Summary

The interior has a greenish white glaze; the concave base is unglazed.

Bibliography

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 24.

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: 244-245, color repro.