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Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Cylindrical Brushholder
1736–95 or later, mid-1800s?
(1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95)
Diameter: 9.3 cm (3 11/16 in.); Overall: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
The brush holder shows children celebrating seasonal festivals, pursuing games, and masquerading as adults with attributes that suggest their future careers in the military or civil service. Three boys play in the shadow of a garden rock with cricket cages; others parade a boy on a goat who wears the headgear of a scholar who passed first in the state examinations. Left to the goat kneels a boy who is about to ignite fire crackers lined up on a stone, a custom to celebrate the New Year. Moreover, the combinations of motifs form puns that express auspicious wishes.- ?–1944Mrs. Francis F. [Elisabeth Severance Allen] Prentiss [1865–1944], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art1944–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Mentioned: p. 83 archive.orgHollis, Howard. “Chinese and Korean Ceramics: Japanese Lacquer.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 6 (1944): 103–100. www.jstor.org
- China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).A Study Exhibition of Chinese Textiles of the Ming and Ch'ing Periods. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 1947-October 9, 1948).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1944.178