Screen with Landscape (reverse) (1736–95): Art, History and Details

Screen with Landscape (reverse) (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 reverse side of this two-sided table screen is a glass painting of architectural landscape in the Chinese style. At the Qing court, imperial commands made possible artistic collaboration and the incorporation of different artistic expressions in a single artwork.

Object facts

• Title: Screen with Landscape (reverse)
• Date: 1736–95
• Culture: China, Beijing palace workshops, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong reign (1736-1795)
• Type: Enamel
• Technique: painted enamel, glass painting, and cast-iron stand
• Dimensions: without base: 65.8 x 32.4 cm (25 7/8 x 12 3/4 in.)
• Collection: China - Qing Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1964.243.1.b

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.
• Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.

View the collection record

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