id: 140295
accession number: 1964.261
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Square Bottle with Squirrel and Grapes, late 1600s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Porcelain with overglaze color enamel (possibly Hizen ware, Kakiemon type); overall: 21.8 x 8.3 cm (8 9/16 x 3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.261
title: Square Bottle with Squirrel and Grapes
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creation date: late 1600s
creation date earliest: 1660
creation date latest: 1699
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creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
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culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique: porcelain with overglaze color enamel (possibly Hizen ware, Kakiemon type)
department: Japanese Art
collection: Japanese Art
type: Ceramic
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measurements: Overall: 21.8 x 8.3 cm (8 9/16 x 3 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Japanese Decorative Style
opening date: 1961-08-30T04:00:00
Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 6-December 17, 1961).
title: The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
opening date: 1990-07-05T04:00:00
The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).
title: The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art
opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00
The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Cleveland Museum of Art (8/30–10/15/1961): “Japanese Decorative Style”
Cleveland Museum of Art (7/5–9/2/1990): “The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection”
Cleveland Museum of Art, (3/27-8/28/2011); "The Lure of Painted Poetry" cat. no. 73
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PROVENANCE
(John Sparks, Ltd., London); Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, 1961
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In the 1600s, Korean and Japanese elites could enjoy wine from Europe. In his 1636 travel diary called Haecharok, Kim Seryeom, a vice director of Korean envoys to Japan, recorded that the head of Japan’s Tsusima Island treated him to Western red wine. Therefore, export porcelain ware like Square Bottle with Squirrel and Grapes could have been made as a wine bottle.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 157, no. 161
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Cleveland Museum of Art, and Sŏn Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.
page number: Mentioned: P. 71; Reproduced: P. 75, no. 73
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