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1942.9-539 (C-392)
Vase

Qing dynasty, eighteenth century
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Porcelain with apple-green glaze, 23.2 x 13.0 (9 /s x 5 Vs)
Widener Collection
TECHNICAL NOTES
The exterior and the upper part of the interior are covered with ally observed on apple-green vessels, none of the other
green enamel over a gray underlying glaze, which is exposed in similarly glazed pieces in the National Gallery collection
those areas where the green glaze is absent, namely in the lower exhibit this trait. Nor is it seen on the two smaller vases
interior and in a very thin line at the mouth rim. Both the of somewhat similar shape in the Metropolitan Museum
underlying glaze and the green enamel end in an even line at of Art, New York. Another vase of this type, but with a
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the foot. The crackle is uniform and fine-meshed. There are lower placement of the fullest curve of the body, is in the
numerous small pinholes and dark spots scattered over the sur-
face of the vessel and a large pinhole in the glaze on the lower Tokyo National Museum; it is not 2 known whether the
pear-shaped portion. Both the unglazed rounded foot-ring and interior contains any green enamel.
the base are coated with a dark brown wash. The paste appears VB
smooth and white in those areas where the wash has worn off.

PROVENANCE
(Duveen Brothers, New York and London); sold 1914 to Peter A.
B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheri- NOTES
tance from Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of 1. Ace. no. 14.40.256 (H: 14.0 cm \^h in.]) has a more
appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. pronounced curve in its lower body; ace. no. 14.40.257 (H: 12.7
cm [5 in.]) has a less trumpeted mouth than this vase.
HIS GRACEFUL PEAR-SHAPED VASE is distinguished by 2. Nishioka and Imai 1990,178, no. 698, repro. The vase is dated
Tthe relatively unusual application of green enamel to to the seventeenth to eighteenth century Its height is 20 cm,
the upper neck of the interior. Although this is occasion- similar to the National Gallery vase.

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