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Vase with Bird and Flower Design
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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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineVase with Bird and Flower Design (백자 청화 화조문 호 [白磁靑畵花鳥文壺]), late 1800s–early 1900s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Porcelain with underglaze blue; outer diameter: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.); overall: 49.4 cm (19 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Yamanaka Shoji in memory of Jiro Yamanaka, 1989.117
