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The Cleveland Museum of Art

The flower-and-bird painting in this vase was intricately executed in colored enamels (falangcai), with careful modeling, shading, and blending of col

Cup and Stand

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The kilns of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province produced an extremely delicate porcelain made from the local resources of kaolin (white China clay) and pe

Tomb Guardians

The Cleveland Museum of Art

With their fierce expressions and exaggerated physical features, these two fantastic guardian creatures were intended to guard the entrance to a tomb,

Watchtower

Cleveland Museum of Art

In this funerary sculpture of the watchtower is a lively retinue of hunters, musicians, dancers, and domestic animals.

Stem Cup

The Cleveland Museum of Art

These two Ming imperial wares [1957.60 and 1957.61] are among the smallest, but most precious, of the museum's holdings in Chinese ceramics.

Bowl with Decoration of the "Three Friends"

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Pine, bamboo, and plum blossom are known as the “Three Friends” of winter as metaphors of the scholar-gentleman’s ideal of integrity, endurance, lofti

Vase with Peonies and Five Spouts

The Cleveland Museum of Art

"In full autumn wind and dew the kilns of Yue open; And a thousand peaks are despoiled of their halcyon green" (translated by S. W.

Dish with Female and Attendant

The Cleveland Museum of Art

On the flattened rim of this dish is a band of ironred enamel decoration with the Chinese characters Wanshou wujiang, meaning "Long life without

Hollow Tile: Column from Tomb-Chamber Doorway

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Striding tigers (top), racing horsemen (right column), and reverent officials (left column) are stamped into the surface of this underground portal to

Dice Bowl

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Chinese connoisseurs use the poetic term "snowflake blue" to describe the mottling effects of white blotches amid tones of blue colored

Hollow Tile: Lintel from Tomb-Chamber Doorway

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Striding tigers (top), racing horsemen (right column), and reverent officials (left column) are stamped into the surface of this underground portal to

Jar (Hu)

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Instead of depicting a real landscape, the artist focused on the rhythmic forces of nature and the movement of energy, using the scrolling form as a s

Architectural Brick with Dancer in Relief

The Cleveland Museum of Art

This brick originally formed part of the exterior wall of the pagoda at the Xiudingsi Buddhist monastery near Anyang, Henan province.

Hollow Tile: Column from Tomb-Chamber Doorway

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Striding tigers (top), racing horsemen (right column), and reverent officials (left column) are stamped into the surface of this underground portal to

Phoenix-Headed Ewer

Cleveland Museum of Art

Phoenix-headed ewers of this type have been unearthed at Xicun in Guangdong province.

Vase (Meiping)

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Longquan potter applied many coats of glaze and allowed each to dry before adding another. With

Pair of Lotus Petal Vases

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The "peach-bloom" glaze developed during the Kangzi era has also been described as "drunken with beauty." Technical achievements w

Brush Washer with Dragons

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The attractive tonal range found in the painted decoration, resulting from the irregular size of cobalt

Bowl with Dragons and Clouds

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragments of bowls with unglazed foot rings and molded and incised ornament very similar to this extremely rare piece have been excavated at the early

Bowl with Flower Petals

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Yuan dynasty Shufu ware was a further development of the earlier qingbai ware and is characterized by a more heavily constructed body, opaque white gl