Cleveland Museum of Art
Bowl with Poppies, Tree Peony, and Flowering Mimosa
- Date
- 1723–35
- Medium
- porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration
- Culture
- China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Yongzheng mark and reign (1723-1735)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 140211
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Developments in enamel technology led to new possibilities in polychrome decoration. 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. As on painted scrolls and album leaves, the image is accompanied with a poem, in this case: "Branches come alive in the moonlight; Blossoms fill the autumn realms."
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- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
- Provenance
- ?–1958: E. C. Blake, Esq., consigned to Sotheby's London | July 9, 1958: (Sotheby's, London, July 9, 1958 sale, lot no. 123) | 1958–?: (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin) | ?–1964: Severance A. [1895–1985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903–1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1964–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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