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  • Triple Gourd Vase
Date1662–1722
Made inChina
MediumCeramic with gilt and blue ground
DimensionsOverall: 7 5/8 × 3 1/4 in. diameter (19.3 × 8.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlene Quitter Thompson
Object number2013.511
Non exposé

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Department
Asian Art
Object Type
ProvenanceLibby Johnson Moody, Galveston, Texas; Charlene Q. Thompson, Houston, Texas; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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]
[no marks]

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