Waterpot

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Artist Unknown Chinese

CultureChinese

Titles

Waterpot

Date1662–1722

Made inJingdezhen, China

MediumPorcelain with clair de lune glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

DimensionsOverall: 2 × 3 7/8 in. diameter (5.1 × 9.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Charlene Quitter Thompson

Object number2013.488

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

109M Jones Galleries

Exposé

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Department

Asian Art

Object Type

CERAMICS

ProvenanceImperial Palace Collection; Prince Li; Libby Johnson Moody, Galveston, Texas; Charlene Q. Thompson, Houston, Texas
Published References Fong Chow, “Chinese Porcelain in the Altman Collection,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Summer, 1961), pp. 6-19. Baur Collection, The Peachbloom Wares of the Kangxi period (1662-1722), T.O.C.S., 1999-2000, vol. 64. He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p. 264-267. George Kuwayama, ed., New Persepctives on the Art of Ceramics in China, Los Angeles, 1992, p. 80-96. Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p.241. Wang Qingzheng, A Dictionary of Chinese Ceramics, Shanghai, 2002, p. 218. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

[no inscription]

[not signed]

Base: six characters in underglaze blue, Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (Made during the reign of the Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty)

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