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Among the greatest achievements of early Qing porcelain are table wares and display objects decorated with polychrome painting like this pair of dishes. Featuring birds perched in peach trees, the dishes are related to the famous birthday set commissioned for the Kangxi emperor’s sixtieth birthday in 1713. These pieces are more inventive than those in the 1713 set, however, since the unframed ornament is allowed to continue unbroken from the outer to inner surfaces and back out again, thus transforming each vessel into a three-dimensional canvas.
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140230
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Dish with Bird on Fruit Tree Branch
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140230
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title
Dish with Bird on Fruit Tree Branch
description
Among the greatest achievements of early Qing porcelain are table wares and display objects decorated with polychrome painting like this pair of dishes. Featuring birds perched in peach trees, the dishes are related to the famous birthday set commissioned for the Kangxi emperor’s sixtieth birthday in 1713. These pieces are more inventive than those in the 1713 set, however, since the unframed ornament is allowed to continue unbroken from the outer to inner surfaces and back out again, thus transforming each vessel into a three-dimensional canvas.
date
1662–1722
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80038139
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 20.5 cm (8 1/16 in.)
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China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi mark and reign (1662–1722)
accession
1964.213.2
Source extras
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Porcelain with famille-verte overglaze enamel decoration
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Dish with Bird on Fruit Tree Branch (過牆枝瑞果鳥紋盤), 1662–1722. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi mark and reign (1662–1722). Porcelain with famille-verte overglaze enamel decoration; diameter: 20.5 cm (8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.213.2
titleInOriginalLanguage
過牆枝瑞果鳥紋盤
collection
China - Qing Dynasty
inscriptions
inscription
大清康熙年制
inscription_translation
Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (Made in the Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign)
inscription_remark
Kangxi mark in blue underglaze with two rings
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1
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1964.214
didYouKnow
By the early eighteenth century, the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen were producing exceptionally fine pieces on a staggering scale.
citations
citation
<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.
page_number
Mentioned: cat. no. 71, p. 73
citation
Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 98–99
citation
Lin, Yi-Hsin 林逸欣. "Cleveland Museum of Art Presents 'A Myriad of Flowers and Bird in Chinese Art'" 克里夫蘭藝術博物館「中國藝術中的花鳥集錦」展覽. <em>Art & Collection </em>典藏．古美術 402 (March 2026).
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Reproduced: fig. 10
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Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
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2026-05-29 07:11:37.925000
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140230
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Chinese Art
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China - Qing Dynasty
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Porcelain with famille-verte overglaze enamel decoration
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