Gourd Flask with Floral Scrolls (1723–35): Art, History and Details

Gourd Flask with Floral Scrolls (1723–35) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This large blue-and-white pilgrim–shaped vase was fashioned from fine kaolinic porcelain at the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province. The body of the vase is of quatrefoil shape merging into a highly similar shaped neck, flanked by two scroll handles. The base is of oval quatrefoil form. The vase is decorated with lotus and other flowers, leaves, and scrolling tendrils in brilliant underglaze cobalt blue beneath a pellucid glaze. The underfoot bears an imperial mark.

Object facts

• Title: Gourd Flask with Floral Scrolls
• Date: 1723–35
• Culture: China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng mark and period (1723–35)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
• Dimensions: Overall: 49.2 x 35.5 cm (19 3/8 x 14 in.)
• Collection: China - Qing Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1964.226

Collection credit

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

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

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