Jingdezhen kilns
Tall Baluster Vase with Dragon Handles
1599-1619
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Jingdezhen kilns
Tall Baluster Vase with Dragon Handles
1599-1619
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with green enamel and transparent glazes, and residue of original overglaze gold decoration, 17 13/16 × 6 1/2 in. (45.2 × 16.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1939.248
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1939; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Whitridge Collection, Sale #142, Nov. 16-18, 1939; William H. Whitridge, Baltimore; William Arkwright, Sutton Scarsdale, Chesterfield; Marsden J. Perry, Providence, RI; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, no. 1515; Duveen Brothers, New York, 1917.
Asian Reinstallation: Home, Temple, Tomb
'The Whitridge Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain,' Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art,1930, no. 313, ill.
Whitridge Collection, NY: Parke-Bernet, 1939, no. 487, ill.
'A Picture Book,' Baltimore: BMA, 1955, ill. p. 90.
Kent Roberts Greenfield, 'The Museum: Its First Half Century,' Annual I, Baltimore: BMA, 1966, ill. p. 29.
Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore: BMA, 1992, p. 47, ill.
Compare slightly smaller example, Widener Collection, C-385, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (vertical file contains copy of NGA research file for C-385 and a postcard of the object) Compare also images provided by M. Desroches, Guimet, Paris, of a Jiajing period blue-and-white vase from the Grandidier collection, Guimet, G4121 (notes in vertical file) R.L. Hobson, 'The Art of the Chinese Potter,' London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1928, pl. CXIII, 15th century enamel glaze (copy in file; note similarity in shape)
Markings: Wanli mark
