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    "localId": "122571",
    "label": "Family Gathering on New Year's Morning",
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    "id": "122571",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Family Gathering on New Year's Morning",
    "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 (<em>Yangxin dian</em>) 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. <br><br>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.",
    "date": "late 1760s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.825",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80018934"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Tapestry"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.825/1942.825_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.825/1942.825_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 257.8 x 377.8 cm (101 1/2 x 148 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)"
    ],
    "accession": "1942.825"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk and wool: tapestry weave",
    "tombstone": "Family Gathering on New Year's Morning (緙絲毛掛毯：歲朝圖), 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",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "緙絲毛掛毯：歲朝圖",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"A Chinese Tapestry.\" <em>The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs</em> 25, no. 136 (1914): 231–230.",
            "page_number": "pp. 230–231",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/859718"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art.<em> Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition June 6-September 20, 1916. </em>Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 174, no. 41"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Marceau, Henri, Horace H. F. Jayne, Calvin S Hathaway, Nancy Andrews Reath, and Boies Penrose. “The Stotesbury Collection.” <em>Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum</em> 28, no. 151 (1932): 19–31.",
            "page_number": "p. 30"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936.</em> [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"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William M., Gertrude Underhill, and Jean Mailey. \"Department of Decorative Arts.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 29, no. 9 (1942): 137–151.",
            "page_number": "pp. 148–149",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/25141017"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “Varieties of Portraiture in Chinese and Japanese Art.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 64, no. 4 (1977): 118–136.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: footnote 9, pp. 121 and 135",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159523"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ball, Victoria Kloss. <em>Architecture and Interior Design: Europe and America from the Colonial Era to Today</em>. vol. 2. New York: Wiley, 1980.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 2.32, pl. 81"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Imagining Qianlong: Louis XV's Chinese Emperor Tapestries and Battle Scene Prints at the Imperial Court in Beijing.</em> Hong Kong: University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 2017.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 56–57, fig. 1"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Rado, Mei Mei. “Qing Imperial Encounters with European Tapestries: The ‘Tenture Chinoise’ and Beyond.” In <em>Arachné / Textes Rassemblés Et Édités Par Pascal-François Bertrand Et Audrey Nassieu Maupas Seite. </em>Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2017.",
            "page_number": "pp. 119–135"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Griswold, William, Xiaofei Tian, Richard Von Glahn, Feng Zhao, S. J. Vainker, Masaaki Itakura, Jiang Wu, et al. <em>China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</em>. Edited by Clarissa von Spee. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 394–395, no. 223"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Rado, Mei Mei. <em>The Empire’s New Cloth: Cross-Cultural Textiles at the Qing Court.</em> New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 109, 134; Reproduced: p. 104, 11, fig. 94; p. 112-113, figs. 95–97; p. 135, figs. 114–115; p. 163, Back Cover"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.825",
    "creditline": "Bequest of John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:19:06.829000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.825/1942.825_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 122571,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "Silk and wool: tapestry weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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