Cleveland Museum of Art
Meiping Vase with Carved Floral Sprays
- Date
- 960–1279
- Medium
- Porcelain with pale bluish-white glaze, qingbai ("blue-white") ware
- Culture
- China, Song dynasty (960–1279)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 284746
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This magnificent plum vase ( meiping ) derives its name from being used to hold a branch from a flowering plum tree. Vases of this shape with a round shoulder and narrow opening originally served as wine containers. Kilns in southern China that produced this ware with a transparent bluish glaze were among the first that applied underglaze blue-and-white decoration, which became popular during the Yuan (1271–1368) and Ming (1368–1644) dynasties. These elegantly carved floral sprays on a monochromatic ground reflect the refined taste of the Song dynasty emperors.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Donna and James Reid
- Provenance
- April 19, 2002: (Delicate House, Chinese Curios, Hong Kong, 19 April 2002, sold to Donna and James Reid) | 2002–2016: Donna [b. 1931] and James Reid [1926–2020], Cleveland Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2017–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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