Vase with Golden Pheasants
The flower-and-bird painting in this vase was intricately executed in colored enamels (falangcai), with careful modeling, shading, and blending of colors reflecting European influences through missionary-artists at the Qing court. The Jesuit artist Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766), in particular, exerted tremendous impact at the Qianlong academy.
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- overall: height 0.186 m, width 0.105 m
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- John L. Severance Fund
Art Genome Taxonomy
9 tags
Subject Matter
Visual Qualities
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Highly Detailed Visual · 95%
The birds, feathers, branches, leaves, flowers, and neck ornament are rendered with fine outlines and numerous small color and tonal transitions.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 94%
The vase combines naturalistic bird and floral imagery with repeated scrolling borders, floral registers, and ornamental bands around the neck and shoulder.
Medium and Techniques
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Glass and Ceramics Both · 98%
The work is a glazed ceramic vessel with enamel decoration, and the catalog specifies porcelain and polychrome enamels.
Time Periods
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18th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the vase to 1736–95, within the eighteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Chinese Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog classifies the work as Chinese Art and locates its production at the Jingdezhen kilns in Jiangxi province, China.
Materials
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Porcelain Metadata · 99%
The museum identifies the medium specifically as porcelain painted in polychrome enamels over transparent glaze.
Tableware, Vessels, and Objects
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Vase Both · 99%
The object is visibly a bottle-shaped decorative vessel with a rounded body, narrow neck, and foot, and the catalog identifies it as a vase.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Vase with Golden Pheasants. Cleveland Museum of Art.