Oval Cup Stand with Animal Masks (1736–95): Art, History and Details

Oval Cup Stand with Animal Masks (1736–95) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This tablet is engraved with minuscule characters; the inscribed text is an essay by the Qianlong emperor. The supreme jade quality and similar carving style (for example, the sharp inverted edges) suggest that this jade scepter could have been made during the 1700s with the artistic intent to "model after the past."

Object facts

• Title: Oval Cup Stand with Animal Masks
• Date: 1736–95
• Culture: China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong mark and period (1736–95)
• Type: Jade
• Technique: white jade with black markings and incised decoration
• Dimensions: Overall: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)
• Collection: China - Qing Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1989.327

Collection credit

Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin

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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