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Vase with Bird and Flower Design
late 1800s–early 1900s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This vase with broad shoulders and a tall neck represents a typical style of 19th-century blue-and-white porcelain. Unlike earlier examples decorated mainly with literati themes that evoke neo-Confucian moral values—plum blossoms (purity), orchids (grace), bamboo (integrity), and chrysanthemums (loftiness)—porcelain works of the 1800s feature fully bloomed peonies and a pair of playful birds, symbols of wealth and familial harmony.
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- Title: Vase with Bird and Flower Design
- Date Created: late 1800s–early 1900s
- Physical Dimensions: Outer diameter: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.); Overall: 49.4 cm (19 7/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Tregoning Fine Art, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.117
- Medium: porcelain with underglaze blue
- Original Title: 백자 청화 화조문 호 (白磁靑畵花鳥文壺)
- Fun Fact: Nineteenth-century Korean blue-and-white porcelains tend to feature broad shoulders and a tall neck.
- Department: Korean Art
- Culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910)
- Credit Line: Gift of Yamanaka Shoji in memory of Jiro Yamanaka
- Collection: Korean Art
- Accession Number: 1989.117
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