Stand for Screen with European Figures (obverse) and Landscape (reverse) (1736–95): Art, History and Details

Stand for Screen with European Figures (obverse) and 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:

This is a cast-iron stand for a two-sided table screen. One side of the screen is an enamel-painted copper plaque with European figures. The reverse side is a glass painting of architectural landscape in the Chinese style.

Object facts

• Title: Stand for Screen with European Figures (obverse) and Landscape (reverse)
• Date: 1736–95
• Culture: China, Beijing palace workshops, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong reign (1736-1795)
• Type: Metalwork
• Technique: cast iron
• 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: 1964.243.2

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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