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Dish with Bird on Peach Branch
1662–1722
(1644-1911), Kangxi mark and reign (1662-1722)
Diameter: 20.7 cm (8 1/8 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.213.1
Location: not on view
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This dish is related to the Kangxi emperor's birthday dishes.Description
Porcelain decorators in the Qing dynasty broadened the palette of naturalistic colors available to their predecessors with the technique of overglaze painting. They carefully painted designs in low-fire, lead-based glazes on top of undecorated glazed porcelains that had already been fired to the required 1200 degrees Celsius. After the pieces were painted, they were fired a second time to set and fix the glazes to the surface. With sharp images in translucent colors on thin white bodies, porcelains such as these mark the final technical and aesthetic accomplishment of the Chinese ceramic tradition.- ?-1960(Frank Caro [1904-1980], New York, NY, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin)1960-1964Severance A. [1895-1985] and Greta Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1964-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990. Mentioned: cat. no. 71, p. 73Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 98–99
- The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).
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