Baluster Vase

CultureChinese

DateKangxi period (1662-1722)

MediumPorcelain with overglaze enamel decoration (famille verte)

DimensionsOverall: 27 3/4 × 10 inches (70.49 × 25.4 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number47-21

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Provenance

Leon Medina Galleries;

Purchased from Leon Medina Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 90 (repro.).

Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 40, no. 1 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 300 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 371, no. 270 (repro.).

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