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Tea Bowl

Tea Bowl

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The scene of Eve handing the apple to Adam surrounded by animals in a the Garden of Eden is delicately painted in grisaille with flesh tones. This popular religious subject also functioned as an erotic image.
Artist
Unknown (Chinese)
Title
Tea Bowl
Date
ca. 1740
Medium
Eggshell porcelain
Dimensions
1 1/2 x 3 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cleaver
Accession No.
1974.71
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
China

Related

by 1973, Ethel Liebman [mother] and Arthur Liebman [son] (Milwaukee, WI); 1973, Arthur Liebman (Milwaukee, WI) sold to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cleaver (Milwaukee, WI); September 1973, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cleaver deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 1974, gifted to Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Brawer, Catherine Coleman. "Chinese Export Porcelain." Madison, Wis.: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1992. p. 129, no. 102

  • Chinese Export Porcelain from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/11/2003–8/29/2005
  • European and Chinese Export Porcelain on Loan and from the Permanent Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 7/16/1983–9/4/1983
  • Chinese Export Porcelain from the Ethel and Arthur Liebman Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/21/1979–1/6/1980

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