Cleveland Museum of Art
Square Covered Box with Hundred Antiquities
- Date
- 1723–35
- Medium
- porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration
- Culture
- China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng mark and reign (1723–35)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The painted decoration in this box cover provides an interesting image of the antiquities and objects being collected in the Chinese scholar’s desk—all of which are emblems of taste, status, and affluence. Connoisseurship, art cataloguing, art historical study, and elegant social gatherings developed alongside art collecting as part of the Chinese literati culture. An auspicious lingzhi mushroom was painted on the base.
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