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Arrow Vase with Persian Inscriptions and Floral Scrolls

1506–21

China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Ming dynasty

(1368-1644), Zhengde mark and reign (1505-1521)
porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue decoration
Diameter: 10.7 cm (4 3/16 in.); Overall: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.170
Location: Not on view

Description

Chinese potters in the 1500s integrated foreign motifs, shapes, and ideas in order to cater to changing tastes and new customers in an increasingly global world.
  • February 17, 1959
    (Sotheby's, London, England, February 17, 1959 sale, lot no. 42)
    1959–64
    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
  • Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. cat. no. 130
    Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990. cat. no. 29
    Cunningham, Lawrence, and John J. Reich. Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 527, fig. 19.8
  • 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 (June 30-September 5, 1982).
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