Vase with Chi-Dragon Handles and Flowers and Birds (1736–95): Art, History and Details

Vase with Chi-Dragon Handles and Flowers and Birds (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 four-sided vase with ovoid body, spreading foot, and short neck is decorated with birds, trees, and flowers in various enamels. The two dragon handles are decorated with floral designs in gold on a rouge-de-fer ground.

Object facts

• Title: Vase with Chi-Dragon Handles and Flowers and Birds
• Date: 1736–95
• Culture: China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong mark and period (1736-95)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain painted in polychrome enamels over transparent glaze
• Dimensions: Overall: 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.)
• Collection: China - Qing Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1942.712

Collection credit

Bequest of John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• Gorer, Edgar, and J. F. Blacker. Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones. London: B. Quaritch, 1911.
• Davies, George R. Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains Formed by George R. Davies. London: Printed by G.W. Jones, at the sign of the Dolphin, 1913.
• “Chinese Porcelain in the Davies Collection.” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, vol. 23, no. 123, 1913, pp. 162–167.

View the collection record

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