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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Nationality: Chinese Creator Dates/Places: China Creator Active Place: China Creator Name-CRT: China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen Kilns, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Mark and Period Title: Dish Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1662 Creation End Date: 1722 Creation Date: 1662-1722 Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects Classification Term: Ceramic Materials and Techniques: porcelain with famille verte overglaze enamel decoration Dimensions: Diameter: 20.7cm AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1964.213.1 ID Number: 1964.213.2 Credit Line: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Context: The Jingdezhen kilns were slow to recover following the collapse of Ming imperial patronage and the Manchu conquest of China. In response to an investigation ordered by the Kangxi emperor in 1680, there was a new, imperially appointed superintendent of the kilns, along with new methods of organizing production. Certain kilns were selected to supply the palace, while a number of others continued to produce wares independently for the commercial markets. By the early eighteenth century, the imperial kilns--staffed by the finest artisans under a knowledgeable and experienced leader--were producing exceptionally fine pieces on a staggering scale. 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 emperor Kangxi'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 the inner surfaces and back out again, thus transforming each vessel into a three-dimensional canvas. Recalling the bird and flower paintings of earlier dynasties, this form of porcelain decoration required the use of a range of naturalistic colors, not simply the blue, red, and brown available with underglaze methods of ornament. To broaden their palette, porcelain decorators turned to overglaze painting. As with earlier experiments in the Ming, Qing painters carefully painted designs in low-fire, lead-based glazes on top of undecorated but glazed porcelains that had already been fired to the required 1,200 degrees Celsius. After they were painted, the pieces were fired for a second time--to around 800 degrees--to set the glazes and fix them to the glazed surface. With sharp images in translucent colors on thin white bodies, porcelains such as these mark the final technical and aesthetic accomplishment of the Chinese ceramic tradition. K.W. AMICA ID: CMA_.1964.213.1-2 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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