id:			123616
accession number:	1944.190
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.190
updated:		2022-01-04 15:30:08.475000

Amphora Vase, 1723–35. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Yongzheng mark and period (1723-35). Porcelain with celadon glaze; overall: 52.1 cm (20 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.190

title:				Amphora Vase
title in original language:	雍正粉青釉双龙尊
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1723–35
creation date earliest:		1723
creation date latest:		1735
current location:		238 Chinese Ceramics
creditline:			The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Yongzheng mark and period (1723-35)
technique:	porcelain with celadon glaze
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Qing Dynasty
type:		Ceramic
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 52.1 cm (20 1/2 in.)
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support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	Yongheng mark
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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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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fun fact: 
The shape of the vase derives from Greece and was introduced to China via the Middle East.

digital description: 


wall description: 
This elegant vase, modeled in the shape of an amphora with dragon handles has perfect symmetry. Its celadon glaze is of exceptional purity and of subtle green color, all characteristics of classical Yongzheng-era monochrome porcelains. <br><br>The amphora shape and dragon handles of this vase, seen earlier in the glazed stoneware of the Sui and Tang dynasties (581-907), were revived during the Yongzheng period for achieving "antique-elegance" (<em>guya</em>) in aesthetics as well as technical perfection in ceramic art.<br><br>Only four vases of this size and glaze are known to exist.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

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

	<em>Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection; Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Published as: Vase in Shape of T'ang Amphora with Ovoid Body, Tall Neck, with "Bamboo Joints" and Projecting Lip.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 82; Reproduced: Plate XXXVII
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n81

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