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The image shows a slender red vase with an elongated neck and pronounced lip at the top. The vase has a glossy finish and black spots on its red ceramic surface. The base is wider and left unglazed, revealing a natural ceramic color.
National Gallery of Art · Decorative Art
Amphora Vase
Chinese Qing Dynasty
- Date
- Kangxi period, 1662/1722
- Medium
- porcelain with peachbloom glaze
- Dimensions
- overall: 15.7 x 5.2 cm (6 3/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
- Classification
- Decorative Art · Ceramic
- Accession number
- 1942.9.516
- 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
Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; 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 slightly concave surface of the deeply recessed base in underglaze blue in two columns of three small characters each: Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (made in the Kangxi reign of the great Qing dynasty)
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