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Vase with Peaches
1736–95
(1644-1911), Qianlong mark and period (1736-1795)
Overall: 51.4 cm (20 1/4 in.)
Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.184.1
Location: 238 Chinese Ceramics
Description
This spectacular vase, one of a pair in the collection, depicts flowering and fruiting peach trees to convey an auspicious message of affluence and long life. Developments in enamel technology led to new possibilities in polychrome decoration of Qing imperial porcelains. Pinks appeared, lending their name to the new palette of overglaze colors (famille rose), and the addition of opaque white allowed painters to vary the value of pigments, enhancing the painterly quality of porcelain decoration.- ?–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: cat. no. 93, 94, p. 83; Reproduced: Plate XXXVIII archive.orgHollis, Howard. “Chinese and Korean Ceramics: Japanese Lacquer.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 6 (June 1944): 103–106. www.jstor.org
- Chinese Textiles and Ceramics. Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 13-May 9, 1975).
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