Vase (1736–95): Art, History and Details

Vase (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 four-character mark on the base of this vase indicates that it was made in Jingdezhen and then sent to Beijing to be decorated in the imperial workshops by painters who were trained in using Western perspective and shading.

Object facts

• Title: Vase
• Date: 1736–95
• Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong mark and reign (1736-95)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Porcelain with decoration in colored fa-lang enamels, Guyuexuan ware
• Dimensions: Overall: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.)
• Collection: China - Qing Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1963.514

A detail from the museum

The child in orange has a bun above his ear, while the rest of his head is clean-shaven, like the other children’s.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1963." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 10 (1963): pp. 263-94.
• "Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1963." Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 18 (1964): pp. 69-91.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

View the collection record

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