
Cleveland Museum of Art
Bottle-shaped Vase
- Date
- 1736–95
- Medium
- porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration
- Culture
- China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong mark and period (1736-95)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 123610
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This spectacular vase, one of a pair in the collection, depicts flowering and fruiting peach trees to convey an auspicious message of affluence and long life. Developments in enamel technology led to new possibilities in polychrome decoration of Qing imperial porcelains. Pinks appeared, lending their name to the new palette of overglaze colors (famille rose), and the addition of opaque white allowed painters to vary the value of pigments, enhancing the painterly quality of porcelain decoration.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
- Provenance
- ?–1944: Mrs. Francis F. [Elisabeth Severance Allen] Prentiss [1865–1944], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1944–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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