id:			123608
accession number:	1944.184
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.184
updated:		2023-05-17 11:14:47.067000

Pair of Vases, 1736–95. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong mark and period (1736-1795). Porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration; overall: 51.4 cm (20 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.184

title:				Pair of Vases
title in original language:	粉彩桃紋瓷瓶
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1736–95
creation date earliest:		1736
creation date latest:		1795
current location:		238 Chinese Ceramics
creditline:			Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong mark and period (1736-1795)
technique:	porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Qing Dynasty
type:		Ceramic
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catalogue raisonne: 

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measurements: Overall: 51.4 cm (20 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Chinese Textiles and Ceramics
	opening date:   1975-01-13T05:00:00
	<i>Chinese Textiles and Ceramics</i>. Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 13-May 9, 1975).

	title:		The Porcelain Connection
	opening date:   1982-06-22T04:00:00
	<i>The Porcelain Connection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-August 15, 1982).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984). (1944.184.2 only)

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Francis F. [Elisabeth Severance Allen] Prentiss [1865–1944], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1944
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1944–
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wall description:
This spectacular vase, one of a pair in the collection, depicts flowering and fruiting peach trees to convey an auspicious message of affluence and long life. Developments in enamel technology led to new possibilities in polychrome decoration of Qing imperial porcelains. Pinks appeared, lending their name to the new palette of overglaze colors (famille rose), and the addition of opaque white allowed painters to vary the value of pigments, enhancing the painterly quality of porcelain decoration.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944</em>. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 93, 94, p. 83; Reproduced: Plate XXXVIII
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n85

	Hollis, Howard. “Chinese and Korean Ceramics: Japanese Lacquer.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 6 (June 1944): 103–106.
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	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141135

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