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Source Description
The brush holder shows children celebrating seasonal festivals, pursuing games, and masquerading as adults with attributes that suggest their future careers in the military or civil service. Three boys play in the shadow of a garden rock with cricket cages; others parade a boy on a goat who wears the headgear of a scholar who passed first in the state examinations. Left to the goat kneels a boy who is about to ignite fire crackers lined up on a stone, a custom to celebrate the New Year. Moreover, the combinations of motifs form puns that express auspicious wishes.
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123601
label
Cylindrical Brushholder
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object
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1
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123601
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object
title
Cylindrical Brushholder
description
The brush holder shows children celebrating seasonal festivals, pursuing games, and masquerading as adults with attributes that suggest their future careers in the military or civil service. Three boys play in the shadow of a garden rock with cricket cages; others parade a boy on a goat who wears the headgear of a scholar who passed first in the state examinations. Left to the goat kneels a boy who is about to ignite fire crackers lined up on a stone, a custom to celebrate the New Year. Moreover, the combinations of motifs form puns that express auspicious wishes.
date
1736–95 or later, mid-1800s?
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79900816
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 9.3 cm (3 11/16 in.); Overall: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.)
cul
China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95)
accession
1944.178
Source extras
tec
porcelain
tombstone
Cylindrical Brushholder, 1736–95 or later, mid-1800s?. China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95). Porcelain; diameter: 9.3 cm (3 11/16 in.); overall: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection, 1944.178
collection
China - Qing Dynasty
citations
citation
<em>Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944</em>. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 83
citation
Hollis, Howard. “Chinese and Korean Ceramics: Japanese Lacquer.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 6 (1944): 103–100.
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Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
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2026-05-29 06:21:44.033000
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123601
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Chinese Art
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China - Qing Dynasty
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porcelain
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photo
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