Bowl with Peony Sprays on Diaper Ground (exterior); Chrysanthemum Sprays (interior) (1736–95): Art, History and Details

Bowl with Peony Sprays on Diaper Ground (exterior); Chrysanthemum Sprays (interior) (1736–95) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The production of extraordinarily refined Qing imperial wares such as these could have involved the transportation of undecorated, plain porcelains from the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, to the palace workshops in Beijing, where court painters applied the polychrome enamel decoration. The Qianlong reign mark on the base of the bowl is written with blue enamel over the transparent glaze.

Object facts

• Title: Bowl with Peony Sprays on Diaper Ground (exterior); Chrysanthemum Sprays (interior)
• Date: 1736–95
• Culture: China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong mark and reign (1736–95)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration
• Dimensions: Diameter: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.); Overall: 7.6 cm (3 in.)
• Collection: China - Qing Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1964.204.2

Collection credit

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.

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