Pair of Vases with Women and Children | Yale University Art Gallery

19th century

Medium: Cloisone
Dimensions: 5 7/8 × 2 1/2 in. (14.9 × 6.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Winston F. C. Guest, B.A. 1927
Accession Number: 1958.89.2b
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Believed to have come from the Imperial Collection, Peking. After the revolution of 1911, they were said to have been placed as loan security in the Salt Industry Bank, Peking, later sold to Ton-ying, and then to Ralph Chait, art dealers in New York; Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, (1906–1982) New York; gift in 1958 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 13, no. 16, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

vases

Inscriptions

Four character Qianlong mark in blue enamel on base

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