Bowl with Flower Petals (1300s): Art, History and Details

Bowl with Flower Petals (1300s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Yuan dynasty Shufu ware was a further development of the earlier qingbai ware and is characterized by a more heavily constructed body, opaque white glaze, molded decoration, and at times the inscription Shufu that gives the ware its name. Although lacking the inscription here, this bowl possesses the characteristics and decoration of Shufu pieces.

Object facts

• Title: Bowl with Flower Petals
• Date: 1300s
• Culture: China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: glazed porcelain with molded decoration, Shufu ware
• Dimensions: Diameter: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.); Overall: 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.)
• Collection: China - Yuan Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1953.122

Collection credit

Anonymous Gift

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “Janus in Limbo.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 1 (January 1963): 3–6.
• Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.
• 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.

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