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Stem Cup with Dragon Pursuing Flaming Jewel

Stem Cup with Dragon Pursuing Flaming Jewel

1300s
(1271-1368)
porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue and molded decoration
Diameter: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.); Overall: 11.8 cm (4 5/8 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.169
Location: not on view

Description

The stem cup as a porcelain vessel shape was introduced to China by the Mongols from Northeast Asia when they ruled the country in the 14th century.
  • Geoffrey Stevenson, Boston, MA
    November 28, 1958-1964
    Severance A. [1895-1985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1964-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Ming Blue-and-White: An Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty. Philadelphia, PA: [Museum of Art], 1949. no. 8
    Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 130
    Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. cat. no. 118
    Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990. cat. no. 25
    Komaroff, Linda, and Stefano Carboni. The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press [distributor], 2002. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat no. 192, p. 285; fig. 18, p. 21
  • The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia 1256-1353. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 28, 2002-February 16, 2003); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (April 13-July 27, 2003).
    The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).
    The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 5, 1982).
    Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968); Asia House, New York, NY (January 16-March 2, 1969).
    Ming Blue and White: an exhibition of blue-decorated porcelain of the Ming dynasty. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (October 29-December 4, 1949).
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