Cleveland Museum of Art

Bowl with Peony Sprays on Diaper Ground (exterior); Chrysanthemum Sprays (interior)

Date

1736–95

Medium

porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration

Culture

China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong mark and reign (1736–95)

Department

Chinese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The production of extraordinarily refined Qing imperial wares such as these could have involved the transportation of undecorated, plain porcelains from the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, to the palace workshops in Beijing, where court painters applied the polychrome enamel decoration. The Qianlong reign mark on the base of the bowl is written with blue enamel over the transparent glaze.

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