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Club-shaped Vase

1662–1722

China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi reign

(1662-1722)

Porcelain

Overall: 49.2 cm (19 3/8 in.)

Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.181

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

大明成...

Inscription Remark

Left column of text is obscured by collectors' stickers.

Inscription

[arrow] FRONT/Stand #114

Provenance
?–1944
Mrs. Francis F. [Elisabeth Severance Allen] Prentiss [1865–1944], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1944–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Mentioned: p. 68, 73, 75; Reproduced: Plate XXXII archive.org
Hollis, Howard. "Chinese and Korean Ceramics: Japanese Lacquer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 6 (1944): 103–106. Mentioned: pp. 103–106; Reproduced: [unpaginated] www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

Arts of China from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (February 27-April 10, 1983).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1944.181