Reticulated Perfume Ball

Kangxi period, 1662/1722

Chinese Qing Dynasty

Associated Names
Chinese Qing Dynasty

Artist

The sculpture features a hanging object which looks like a lantern. It is predominantly white, with floral and leaf designs in green and red. There appear to be hexagonal sections cut out of the lamp, giving it the impression of honeycomb. The lamp is held aloft by a reddish-brown wooden stand, the top of which ends in a hook shaped like a dragon's head. The stand has an elaborate base carved with swirling patterns. Hanging from the bottom of the lantern is a white tassel that hangs down to the base of the stand.

Media Options

This object’s media is not available for download. Contact us about image usage.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 10.5 x 10.8 cm (4 1/8 x 4 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.566

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York. (Duveen Brothers, New York and London); sold to 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.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1904

  • Morgan 1904-1911, 1:10, no. 999a.

1942

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

1947

  • Christensen, Erwin O. Chinese Porcelains of the Widener Collection. Washington, 1947 (rev. ed. 1956): 16.

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: 172-173, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62758455

You may be interested in

Loading Results