Plum Blossom Cup (1621–27): Art, History and Details
Plum Blossom Cup at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1621–27, porcelain with underglaze blue and wucai (five color) overglaze enamel decoration. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Plum Blossom Cup (1621–27) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This porcelain cup is considered to have been made in the "Transitional period," a term used to define the period between about 1620 and 1683 when official kilns in Jingdezhen were no longer under imperial supervision due to the transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasties.
Object facts
- Title: Plum Blossom Cup
- Date: 1621–27
- Culture: China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, "Transitional period", Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Tianqi reign (1621-1627)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: porcelain with underglaze blue and wucai (five color) overglaze enamel decoration
- Dimensions: Overall: 6.7 x 12.6 cm (2 5/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
- Collection: China - Ming Dynasty
- Department: Chinese Art
- Accession number: 1989.295
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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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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