id: 122571 accession number: 1942.825 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.825 updated: 2023-09-28 11:06:42.308000 Family Gathering on New Year's Morning, late 1760s. China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Silk and wool: tapestry weave; overall: 257.8 x 377.8 cm (101 1/2 x 148 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.825 title: Family Gathering on New Year's Morning title in original language: 緙絲毛掛毯：歲朝圖 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1760s creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1769 current location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: Silk and wool: tapestry weave department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Tapestry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 257.8 x 377.8 cm (101 1/2 x 148 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection opening date: 1942-11-12T04:00:00 Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943). title: Exhibition of the Month: Historic Flower Containers opening date: 1952-12-31T05:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: Historic Flower Containers. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 31, 1952-March 3, 1953). title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: The Porcelain Connection opening date: 1982-06-22T04:00:00 The Porcelain Connection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-August 15, 1982). title: China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan) opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00 China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Gallery I - Exhibition of the Month: Chinese Furniture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 1946). --- PROVENANCE John L. Severance [1863–1936], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1914–1942 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1942– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This European-style tapestry depicts a family gathering, in a woven Western picture frame, that presumably once furnished the Hall of Cultivating the Mind (Yangxin dian) in the Forbidden City. The tapestry employs Western perspective and shading combined with the traditional Chinese subject of a family gathering in a palace, including motifs expressing wishes for good fortune and for a peaceful reign.

In 1766, six French tapestries had been presented to the Chinese court. The Qianlong emperor was so intrigued that he commissioned tapestries in the French style from Suzhou. Records mention an imperial order for tapestries in the Western style, such as this one, in 1769, 1770, and 1775. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "A Chinese Tapestry." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 25, no. 136 (1914): 231-30. page number: pp. 230-31 url: http://www.jstor.org.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/859718 Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition June 6-September 20, 1916. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. page number: Mentioned: p. 174, no. 41 url: Marceau, Henri, Horace H. F. Jayne, Calvin S Hathaway, Nancy Andrews Reath, and Boies Penrose. “The Stotesbury Collection.” Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum 28, no. 151 (1932): 19–31. page number: p. 30 url: Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. page number: Reproduced: p. [57], Plate XXVIII, cat. no. 124; Mention: p. 60, cat. no. 124 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n64 Milliken, William M., Gertrude Underhill, and Jean Mailey. "Department of Decorative Arts." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (1942): 137-51. page number: pp. 148-149 url: http://www.jstor.org.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/25141017 Lee, Sherman E. “Varieties of Portraiture in Chinese and Japanese Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 4 (1977): 118–136. page number: Mentioned: footnote 9, pp. 121 and 135 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159523 Ball, Victoria Kloss. Architecture and Interior Design: Europe and America from the Colonial Era to Today. vol. 2. New York: Wiley, 1980. page number: Reproduced: fig. 2.32, pl. 81 url: Imagining Qianlong: Louis XV's Chinese Emperor Tapestries and Battle Scene Prints at the Imperial Court in Beijing. Hong Kong: University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 2017. page number: Reproduced: pp. 56-57, fig. 1 url: Rado, Mei Mei. “Qing Imperial Encounters with European Tapestries: The ‘Tenture Chinoise’ and Beyond.” In Arachné / Textes Rassemblés Et Édités Par Pascal-François Bertrand Et Audrey Nassieu Maupas Seite. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2017. page number: pp. 119-135 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.825/1942.825_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.825/1942.825_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.825/1942.825_full.tif