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Bowl with Poppies, Tree Peony, and Flowering Mimosa

Bowl with Poppies, Tree Peony, and Flowering Mimosa

1723–35
(1644-1911), Yongzheng mark and reign (1723-1735)
porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration
Diameter: 14.1 cm (5 9/16 in.); Overall: 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.201
Location: 238 Chinese Ceramics

Description

Developments in enamel technology led to new possibilities in polychrome decoration. 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. As on painted scrolls and album leaves, the image is accompanied with a poem, in this case: "Branches come alive in the moonlight; Blossoms fill the autumn realms."
  • ?-1958
    E. C. Blake, Esq., consigned to Sotheby's London
    July 9, 1958
    (Sotheby's, London, July 9, 1958 sale, lot no. 123)
    1958-?
    (Frank Caro, New York, NY, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin)
    ?-1964
    Severance A. [1895-1985] and Greta Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1964-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Oriental Ceramic Society. Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty (1644-1912): Catalogue of an Exhibition. London: The Society, 1951. cat. no. 193
    Sotheby's, London. Fine "Famille-Rose" Porcelain in Chinese Taste. July 9, 1958 sale. Lot no. 123 Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 28-29
    Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. Reproduced: color plate 50
    Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990. Reproduced: p. 75, no. 82 and pl. 4
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 103
  • The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).
    Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty. Oriental Ceramic Society, London, UK (May 23-July 21, 1951).
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