Pair of Bottles with Peach Bloom Glaze (1662–1722): Art, History and Details

Pair of Bottles with Peach Bloom Glaze (1662–1722) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The "peach-bloom" glaze developed during the Kangxi era has also been described as "drunken with beauty." Technical achievements were transcended with aesthetic associations, revealing the greatest sensitivity to all things beautiful in nature.

Object facts

• Title: Pair of Bottles with Peach Bloom Glaze
• Date: 1662–1722
• Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi reign (1661-1722)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain
• Dimensions: Overall: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.); Part 2: 15.3 cm (6 in.)
• Collection: China - Qing Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1942.670

Collection credit

Bequest of John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
• Hollis, Howard. "Department of Oriental Arts: Chinese Ceramics and Jades." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (November 1942): 150–157.

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