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The image displays a single large vase in a pale blue color against a dark background. The vase has a slightly flared mouth, a rounded body, and tapers towards the base.
National Gallery of Art · Decorative Art
Amphora Vase
Chinese Qing Dynasty
- Date
- Kangxi period, 1662/1722
- Medium
- porcelain with pale blue glaze
- Dimensions
- overall: 16.1 x 5.7 cm (6 5/16 x 2 1/4 in.)
- Classification
- Decorative Art · Ceramic
- Accession number
- 1942.9.493
- Credit line
- Widener Collection
- Time span
- 1651 to 1700
- Department
- CSD
Subjects and terms
- Chinese
- glazed
- Decorative Arts. Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets
- Kangxi
Provenance
Richard Bennett, Northampton, England; sold 1911 to (Gorer, London); (Dreicer and Co., New York, agent for Gorer, London); sold 1913 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.
Inscription
in standard script on the base in underglaze blue in two vertical lines of three characters each: Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (made in the Kangxi reign of the great Qing dynasty)
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