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Vase with Golden Pheasants

Vase with Golden Pheasants

1736–95
(1644-1911), Qianlong mark and period (1736-95)
porcelain painted in polychrome enamels over transparent glaze
Overall: 18.6 x 10.5 cm (7 5/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1971.145
Location: 238 Chinese Ceramics

Did You Know?

Refined porcelains produced in Jingdezhen kilns were sent to Beijing palace workshops to be decorated in falangcai technique under direct imperial supervision.

Description

The flower-and-bird painting in this vase was intricately executed in colored enamels (falangcai), with careful modeling, shading, and blending of colors reflecting European influences through missionary-artists at the Qing court. The Jesuit artist Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766), in particular, exerted tremendous impact at the Qianlong academy.
  • by 1931
    Charles Russell Collection
    ?–1971
    (John Sparks, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1971–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Hobson, R. L., Bernard Rackham, and William King. Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections. London: Halton & T. Smith, Ltd, 1931. Mentioned: p. 192; Reproduced: plate 28
    Hobson, R. L., Bernard Rackham, and William King. Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections. London: Halton & T. Smith, Ltd, 1931. Mentioned: p. 192; Reproduced: plate 28
    The Barbara Hutton Collection of Chinese Porcelain; [Exhibition] Honolulu Academy of Arts, November 1956-January 1957. Honolulu: [Honolulu Academy of Arts], 1957. p. 30, pl. XXI; p. 31, pl. XXII
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 360 archive.org
    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. 136
    Hai wai yi zhen. Tao ci. San [Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, Pottery and Porcelain III = 海外遺珎. 陶瓷. 三]. Zhonghua min guo Taibei Shi, Shilin qu 中華民國台北市士林區: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan 國立故宮博物院, 1992. Reproduced: p. 199, plate 199
  • Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).
    The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982).
    Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).
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